• VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Evictions, disproportionately of those most vulnerable, due to Austerity via the Neoliberal policies of Reagan and Thatcher which very much persist today, maximizing, subsidizing the profit of fortune 500 companies while making welfare a slur.

    Cops break up people who are just trying to feed the hungry.

    ICE; Locking children in cages – No human is illegal. The Contras were perpetrated by the imperial core, and then the imperial family eats up the propaganda to hate the refugees fleeing those situations.

    Prisons, during covid lockdowns, put prisoners in 24/7 solitary. Solitary is torture. It is so bad that is an effective motivator to force prisoners to instead labor for cents a day.

    Cops illegally raid safe injection sites, and spread disinformation about People who use drugs, dehumanizing themselves in the process.

    Read about the Comstock Raids, as far back as 1860s, the reason that motivated the Stonewall Uprising a century later, and dont think they up and stopped harrassing queer folks of color for doing so much as existing in public.

    The origins of the police forces were to chase down runaway slaves.

    It is not “a few bad eggs”. It’s not about a bug of the system, it’s the features it was designed for, through Comstocks weaponization of the Post Office to control bodies and autonomy, into modern day surveillance state and militarization.

    What we are talking about is Violence. SYSTEMIC Violence.

    There is no more violent beast than the Settler-Colonial White Supremacist, with all it’s manifest destiny. This Prison System’s history is well documented, and evidence of it’s violence is more apparent and accessible everyday.

    Abolition is a process and it will take time, the two greatest things we can do to obsolete prisons and police are:

    1. encourage and popularize anti-authoritarian parenting methods and 2) build strong community groups and mutual aid networks.

    We must be free from class, from heirarchies of domination. These are inherently violent

    That Dang Dad on YT is a great resource, and that’s a starting point, because there is no justice unless you adress the root cause, and the truth is always on the side of the oppressed.