I’ve watched that episode probably a dozen times. It’s amazing that the week this happened, he and Samantha Bee and others who go for the comedic side of presenting the news were having a tough time getting through it. You could see the frustration as they had to rein in their emotions and get it out there. John looked done at the end, like I can’t believe we actually have to talk about this AGAIN!
I finally read On Killing, the book by that Grossman guy, but he talks 96% about soldiers, men in combat, not warrior cops… but I guess it’s another book that tells cops how to think like military men who went through conditioning to be better enemy destroyers. Certainly pricey seminars. Those things have to go. And cops’ loads should be lightened. We have ’em do far too much. The sooner we can find a way to tear it down and re-build it, the better. Reform is just a band-aid because give it five years and bad habits and “good ‘ol boys” will change it all back again.
I was shocked and yet not-shocked at the lack of police accountability. I just hadn’t had much of a chance to think on it before. Well, I’ve got a dozen books coming and I’ve put off my religious research to focus on this instead.
Hoping that things get better. Hugs to all and be well.
The sooner we can find a way to tear it down and re-build it, the better.
Yes. The sooner the better. All of it.
The most powerful segment of the show was, of course, Kimberly Jones’.
Truth has rarely so passionately and accurately been spoken:
It’s not ours!
We don’t own anything!
We don’t
own
ANYTHING!
The roots of white supremacy run deep, to be sure. Because it is at one with a for-profit system that fully permeates and controls every aspect of our lives, and that presupposes and absolutely requires the complete expropriation of the many, that is to say, that one social class should own everything, while the exploited and oppressed majority should own nothing save its ability to slave for an always precarious wage.
The issue is racism, yes, but it isn’t only (or even primarily) racism.
For what is the contract? It is at bottom capitalism.
That’s a contract that, from the standpoint of the necessarily pauperized majority, can never be fixed.
Under such a system — even were it completely purged of the obscenity and abomination that is racial oppression — equality would yet simply be impossible.
The propertied minority would yet require a propertyless majority.
Kimberly’s plaint would yet remain as heart-wrenching and relevant as ever:
It’s not ours!
We don’t own anything!
We don’t
own
ANYTHING!
I’ve watched that episode probably a dozen times. It’s amazing that the week this happened, he and Samantha Bee and others who go for the comedic side of presenting the news were having a tough time getting through it. You could see the frustration as they had to rein in their emotions and get it out there. John looked done at the end, like I can’t believe we actually have to talk about this AGAIN!
I finally read On Killing, the book by that Grossman guy, but he talks 96% about soldiers, men in combat, not warrior cops… but I guess it’s another book that tells cops how to think like military men who went through conditioning to be better enemy destroyers. Certainly pricey seminars. Those things have to go. And cops’ loads should be lightened. We have ’em do far too much. The sooner we can find a way to tear it down and re-build it, the better. Reform is just a band-aid because give it five years and bad habits and “good ‘ol boys” will change it all back again.
I was shocked and yet not-shocked at the lack of police accountability. I just hadn’t had much of a chance to think on it before. Well, I’ve got a dozen books coming and I’ve put off my religious research to focus on this instead.
Hoping that things get better. Hugs to all and be well.
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Yes. The sooner the better. All of it.
The most powerful segment of the show was, of course, Kimberly Jones’.
Truth has rarely so passionately and accurately been spoken:
The roots of white supremacy run deep, to be sure. Because it is at one with a for-profit system that fully permeates and controls every aspect of our lives, and that presupposes and absolutely requires the complete expropriation of the many, that is to say, that one social class should own everything, while the exploited and oppressed majority should own nothing save its ability to slave for an always precarious wage.
The issue is racism, yes, but it isn’t only (or even primarily) racism.
For what is the contract? It is at bottom capitalism.
That’s a contract that, from the standpoint of the necessarily pauperized majority, can never be fixed.
Under such a system — even were it completely purged of the obscenity and abomination that is racial oppression — equality would yet simply be impossible.
The propertied minority would yet require a propertyless majority.
Kimberly’s plaint would yet remain as heart-wrenching and relevant as ever:
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Kimberly Jones’ part made me cry. And you could tell John was damned close to it himself with that abrupt signoff.
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Somehow, this did not comfort Tubularsock.
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I do wonder that we can ever extricate ourselves from this nightmare.
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