I’ve been writing about prisons and criminal justice for years.
I lost patience last fall when someone was talking about the “vandals” at Columbia during the protests and how they should all be thrown in jail.
I pointed out that historically, most of the people she would recognize as societally “good” were the jailees not the jailers. It infuriated her.
It is not a perfect heuristic, but you can get a good bead on a political conflict by noting who is building tunnels and who is building jails.
I lost patience last fall when someone was talking about the “vandals” at Columbia during the protests and how they should all be thrown in jail.
I pointed out that historically, most of the people she would recognize as societally “good” were the jailees not the jailers. It infuriated her.
It is not a perfect heuristic, but you can get a good bead on a political conflict by noting who is building tunnels and who is building jails.