Seattle is not Progressive & thoughts on Crime.
Now, some people think of Seattle as some sort of liberal bastion. And certainly it has its liberal aspects, but there's still much racism and repressiveness in terms of facing off the issues that plague the city. Read this back and forth on reddit to see that there's probably no hope...
Just dealing with mass incarceration (on levels of Stalin's time and reading Gulag has me thinking, oh they didn't have completely mad reasons for arresting people... we've done worse[1]) brings up the stupid. Now with this I'm not completely against the hard right (and center left... never forget Clinton) because there is some ambiguity to why crime went down during the 90s. To hear people in NYC talk, it was all Giuliani, and yet crime went down all over the country.
Freakonomics made the claim it was abortion (though I sense it has been refuted now). While others have made the claim it was youth population (combined with less opportunities). Nowadays, however, it seems that the car is to blame and lead is the culprit of the rise in crimes. Crazy to think that it was a chemical to stop engines from pinging that did us in.
Anyhow, what I'm saying is that there isn't a consensus (or the lead one isn't widely known just yet) and so people revert very quickly to tribal markers instead of thought (I suppose they do it for Climate Change too).
Sad, because people will continue to suffer.
[1] Note, I'm talking about the reasons for arresting people, not the camps and mines. SO take a look at Just Mercy and what it says about On the USSR count we're talking pretty heinous crimes against humanity. Read Kolyma Tales for some clear thinking on that. Nevertheless, one still needs to read The New Jim Crow to gain a better understanding of the racial intent of fighting crime and using criminals as slaves.
Enjoyed it? Share it via email, facebook, twitter, or one of the buttons below (or through some other method you prefer). Thank you! As always, here's the tip jar. paypal.me/nlowhim Throw some change in there & help cover the costs of running this thing. You can use paypal or a credit card.
Just dealing with mass incarceration (on levels of Stalin's time and reading Gulag has me thinking, oh they didn't have completely mad reasons for arresting people... we've done worse[1]) brings up the stupid. Now with this I'm not completely against the hard right (and center left... never forget Clinton) because there is some ambiguity to why crime went down during the 90s. To hear people in NYC talk, it was all Giuliani, and yet crime went down all over the country.
Freakonomics made the claim it was abortion (though I sense it has been refuted now). While others have made the claim it was youth population (combined with less opportunities). Nowadays, however, it seems that the car is to blame and lead is the culprit of the rise in crimes. Crazy to think that it was a chemical to stop engines from pinging that did us in.
Anyhow, what I'm saying is that there isn't a consensus (or the lead one isn't widely known just yet) and so people revert very quickly to tribal markers instead of thought (I suppose they do it for Climate Change too).
Sad, because people will continue to suffer.
[1] Note, I'm talking about the reasons for arresting people, not the camps and mines. SO take a look at Just Mercy and what it says about On the USSR count we're talking pretty heinous crimes against humanity. Read Kolyma Tales for some clear thinking on that. Nevertheless, one still needs to read The New Jim Crow to gain a better understanding of the racial intent of fighting crime and using criminals as slaves.
Enjoyed it? Share it via email, facebook, twitter, or one of the buttons below (or through some other method you prefer). Thank you! As always, here's the tip jar. paypal.me/nlowhim Throw some change in there & help cover the costs of running this thing. You can use paypal or a credit card.
No comments have been added yet.
Nelson Lowhim's Blog
- Nelson Lowhim's profile
- 14 followers
Nelson Lowhim isn't a Goodreads Author
(yet),
but they
do have a blog,
so here are some recent posts imported from
their feed.
