[lbo-talk] Imus

Tayssir John Gabbour tayssir.john at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 16 14:32:40 PDT 2007


On 4/16/07, Louis Kontos <lkontos at mac.com> wrote:
> I don't see anybody on this list making the claim that police
> brutality is a more serious problem than street crime -- or what you
> call "thug brutality". Who/what are you responding to?

It is weird that the focus is on police brutality, as opposed to (for example) the US's massive jailing of its own citizenry. As if we're the most criminal people in the world. I suspect that police brutality is a red herring in this discussion.

I mean yeah, police brutality is a predictable symptom of our system. But the traditional left, as far as I've read, doesn't just stop there. Maybe we could have robots acting perfectly courteously, locking the citizenry up with precise levels of force and threats of violence. But would that alone resolve the issue? Or would the system still be gruesome?

Tayssir



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