Can we reflect on how elected Democrats haven't said "latinx" since 2021 and yet I still see two articles a week telling them to stop?
The evidence doesn't indicate that Dems using SJW jargon is a real problem — it's something the far right says to justify their actions.
Yeah these are the real tell that this isn't about language, it's about policy. Shifting criminal justice toward the perspective of victims is an argument for mass incarceration!
The condescending tone of those explanations is deliberate, malicious and fucking infuriating
"people deserve to feel safe"
yeah see... after entirely too many years of people being scared of shit that ain't real, i have changed my mind on this. people don't deserve to "feel safe"; people deserve to BE safe, but ppl who work themselves into racist/transphobic panics don't deserve validation
Sometimes the "criminal" is actually the victim. I literally spent 4 hours at the ER being checked for a heart attack because once again the neighbors called the cops and DCFS on my Autistic daughter acting Autistically and the anxiety combined with brand new perimenopausal GERD made me feel like:
People like cause and effect to be crime - > punishment instead of cause - > crime (effect) - > victim (follow on effect)
The first is easy and zip zap you're done.
The second is hard because you now have to solve the first order cause instead
So this whole piece is about what Democrats shouldn't say in public discourse, but nothing about how they should address issues involving these topics. I can only assume they think Dems should adopt GOP terminology and framing.
Instead of “involuntary confinement” use the term the Trump executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets” uses: involuntary commitment. Problem solved.
"People deserve to feel safe" is cribbed directly from the Trump Administration's invasion of DC. The idea that law enforcement should not be in the business of preventing or solving crime, but making (some) people "feel safe".
Yeah and it’s not about winning votes or improving communications or anything like that. It’s about disciplining the left.
We saw the same thing in the UK and if you don’t stand up to them and let them take an inch, they’ll try to take a mile.
The strongest conclusion from this argument is that they think criminal perpetrators are not people, which .... is a position traditionally held by the far end of one side of the political spectrum.
The main thing that makes me feel unsafe where I go to school is when a transphobe heard that a "gender studies" class was occurring and he brought a knife there and stabbed several people.
I also have no idea how "incarcerated people" - a straightforward and literal descriptor - somehow communicates that victims of crime are not important.
(Obligatory note that many people who are incarcerated are also victims of crime, before, during, and after their incarceration)
This is precisely the sickness right here: "The Democratic Party should make fan fiction podcasts say 'woman' again."
How? Why? Do right-wing podcasts ever say anything untoward that Republicans should address?
Everything goes back to the myth that Dems are responsible for petty aesthetic gripes
I hate the language of "people have a right to feel safe." they don't! What makes people feel safe is a black box based on their prejudices that policy can't actually do anything about! People have the right to be safe.
Those terms that you agree with are just added the list to normalize their regressive views in the rest of it. A bunch of rich Republicans don't want you talking about privilege, trans rights, or over policing.
This just is garbage and you really don't have to hand it to them.
I agree that people deserve to feel safe where they live and work! I also think the Third Way should reflect on the fact that crime is actually at historical lows and that perhaps their framing of this issue is part of the reason people don't feel safe.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any of these terms, but the one I hear all the time they left off the list: “carceral state.”
Also…none of these words/phrases have anything to do with people’s feeling of safety!
None of these remotely diminish victims of crime, downplay crime, tell anyone they’re wrong for feeling how they do, or correct their inaccurate perception of safety
And the stolen valor of pretending they had anything to do with criminal justice reforms rather than being dragged kicking and screaming into them is a cherry on top (and in many cases, tried and actively continue to try to undo those reforms)
These third positionists make me crazy.
The point of saying "incarcerated people" is not to imply their innocence, but that criminality is not the defining factor in addressing the conditions in prison.
We shouldn't use the term "divorced people" because this guy Hank I know is also into trains.
Don’t say justice-involved, but “officer-involved shooting” is fine
