Tuesday, February 01, 2022

The Radical Notion of Consequences



You want to teach police to change the way they do business? Get rid of impunity, fire every cop that turns off a body camera, and make sure every police abuse settlement comes out of the department pension fund.

You want to teach politicians? Don’t wait for an election: picket their house and their office now, and don’t stop.

Film every racist interaction, and post that shit online. Name and shame them. Get people fired.

We’re changing long-standing, dangerous, and socially destructive self-rewarding behavior here. Yes, it’s going to be painful and scary and uncomfortable to white people set in their ways. That’s the point. That’s how change works.

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