Dennis Claxton:
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> Angela Davis argues for abolition of prisons. How many would react
> positively to that? Does that mean it's something we shouldn't support?
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> And how do you know what the response would be anyway?
I don't know. I'm speculating. What's your guess?
Meanwhile, can you distinguish between a long-term and a short-term goal? I'm not against legalizing whoring, and I'm against the idea of jails, if we can ever get to a state of society where they prove to be unneeded. But to talk about these two things as near-term political platform planks is suicidal. In the case of just closing down jails with no other social changes, it's also damned stupid and even murderous.