[lbo-talk] Police brutality

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Mon Apr 16 15:47:54 PDT 2007



>Woj wrote
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>Now your, and others', request to name the liberals who are soft on crime.
>It is like conservatives and racism. Few of them are openly racist, and you
>can be hardly pressed to find them saying racist comments. On the contrary,
>publicly - they condemn it. Their racism is far much subtle, in their
>innuendos, winks, nods, what they tacitly accept, what they avoid. Ditto
>for the condoning of delinquent behavior by liberals. Few openly do so,
>save few loony radicals. Most speak against it in the public. Most of it
>is again in winks, nods, things unsaid, things avoided, explanations
>bordering on excuses and the like. So the answer to your question is -
>softness on crime, like racism, it is very difficult to pinpoint it, let
>alone prove it, yet that does not mean it does not exist.
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Well at least one benefit of this conversation is that you admit the existence of structures you cannot directly verify through crass empirical observation. It is a start I suppose.

Travis



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