It kinda sucks that Trump got convicted of 34 felonies because now I’m seeing so many people thinking felon = bad, when in fact convicted felons are disproportionately people of color who were convicted for things that shouldn’t be crimes at all such as drugs, or based on the thinnest of evidence by strongly biased juries.
Look up Fontae Buelow for one obvious example – all white jury, the corrupt judge dismissed a dissenting juror, the same corrupt judge was appointed to the retrial, and the more you look into this case, the more obvious it is this man is not guilty.
That’s just one example. This happens all across the US, over and over again – people stripped of their rights, denied justice. I was in jail in a community that was 75% white, but nearly every person in my cell besides me was Native, Hispanic, or Black. This is typical of any jail or prison in nearly any location in the US, because our institutions were deliberately created to do this.
And yes, I’m glad Trump got at least a taste of our “justice” system, and I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s parade here – but the main takeaway here should NOT be that felons are bad people who are undeserving of equity. Trump is a bad person whether he’s a felon or not, and many felons are good people – and even if they’re NOT good people, they’re still people worthy of regard and basic respect, worthy to be treated as fellow humans who are equals.
Just because someone is a felon doesn’t make them a bad person no but it also depends on what the felony is and whether it was justified. Sure there are unjust laws out there but generally if someone is charged with a felony it’s because they committed a crime and I’m not sure I’d consider most criminals as good people.
Did you not read my post? The US judicial system is unfair and unjust by design. The average felon is no worse than the average person you meet on the street every day. Not to mention all the blatantly unjust reasons people are imprisoned, such as failing to recognize colonial borders, or failing to grovel before the “good” and “right” people.
We have a sitting president who’s guilty of more murder than the worst serial killer in history, but he’s apparently guilty of no crime. Systems like property investment agencies and hospitals can extort you to the point of death, yet they’re doing it the “right” way.
And the cherry atop the shit sundae is that our “justice” institutions never restore, only destroy.
You’ve been deceived if you think there’s any justice here. Even the “bad criminals” are being made worse by the system. In fact, it is most of all our inequitable system that creates criminals in the first place.
This is a leftist community. Please don’t defend inherently racist and classist systems here. Please and thank you.
I don’t belong to any particular political affiliation no need to be hostile.
This isn’t really a matter of team sports, more a matter of principle.
This is an important societal issue, so I find it imperative that I don’t allow anyone to undermine the very points that I was making in my post.
I feel like if you are wanting your points to not be undermined, you may want to adjust how you speak to others because it’s not helping your cause.
Incorrect. You undermined my post unprompted in a top level comment, and this is expressly not a debate community.
Got it. That tells me everything I need to know about the community.
To be fair, I’m sorry I came across as an asshole.