Up With The ‘Carceral State’By Rod Dreher
February 22, 2022
This is beyond infuriating:
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Liberal DA George Gascon — one of a slew of progressive district attorneys whose campaigns have been financially supported by billionaire George Soros — released a statement saying that in the wake of the Tubbs case, he is backtracking on his progressive approach to cases like this one.
Meanwhile, New York City continues to reel from criminal assaults on innocent people. Here’s Nicole Gelinas writing about the savagery unleashed on her city’s streets:
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Read it all. This is a sign of a society so debilitated by liberal pieties that it is unwilling to defend itself, and its most vulnerable people.
For years now, we have been informed that the United States is a “carceral state,” one that locks up a shameful number of its people — especially black men — because it is racist. This is Critical Race Theory in action: the idea that if there is a disproportionate number of people of color punished by the criminal justice system, that is prima facie evidence of racism.
It’s a lie, and a lie that is costing people their lives. It is certainly true that a wildly disproportionate number of black men are sent to prison for violent crimes. But you know what else is true? That a wildly disproportionate number of black men commit violent crimes! There are reasons for that, not least among them the collapse of the black family, but the answer to this problem cannot be going soft on crime. James/Hannah Tubbs is not black, obviously, but he still benefits from the soft-on-crime sentimentality of liberal DAs and the people who vote for them.
A society in which so many people commit criminal violence may be said to be a failed one, or at least a failing one. But you know what’s worse? A society that will not hold such criminals accountable for their crimes. If we have to double the number of prisoners, that is the price we have to pay for safety and order. Certainly we have to get these liberal DAs out of office, but we also have to purge ourselves of this maniac idea that punishing criminals is distasteful. What you tolerate, you encourage.
Do liberals think that we sent, and send, so many people to jail because we are a cruel, racist society? Yes, I think they do. Liberals have a hard time holding the anti-social responsible for their actions. We can either have a proper civilization, or we can have liberal approaches to crime. Nobody likes prisons, but what is the alternative?
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/up-with-the-carceral-state-james-hannah-tubbs/
