[lbo-talk] Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 15:37:55 PDT 2012


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

Of course
> leftists take advantage when useful of capitalist laws & institutions which
> they want to destroy.
>

Well, of course. And it's always easiest to point out intellectual discrepancies in others, when really, we all have them.

But for someone who opposes prisons - who actually sees them doing all harm and no good, as many seem to - how is it possibly "useful" to "take advantage" here? Why George Zimmerman, but not thousands of other alleged and convicted murderers? Such a jarring disconnect seems to demand, at a minimum, some justification.

If anyone's curious, I can explain why I don't like nationalism, but support Palestinian nationalism as the best actually-existing option. So why oppose imprisonment, but support the imprisonment of George Zimmerman? If there's an argument, I'm open to hearing it.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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