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Beating Victim to Cuomo: Don’t Add Subway Police on My Behalf! – Stre…

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Beating Victim to Cuomo: Don’t Add Subway Police on My Behalf!
An assault victim doesn't want her case to lead to a crackdown on homeless men.

• By Julia Metraux
• Dec 16, 2019
• 106 COMMENTS

Cops and cops and cops and cops are all over the subways. Photo: Caitlin Plaut
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Iwas assaulted on a subway platform.

I was beaten so badly that I was taken to the hospital in a blur, diagnosed with a concussion.
But the last thing I want is for Gov. Cuomo to put 500 more cops in the subway. Here’s why.

I simply don’t believe the cops will improve safety, but, more important, I’m concerned over mounting evidence that more cops just mean more harassment and danger for people of color — used as an excuse to target marginalized people in the name of victims like me and others.

Julia Métraux
Here’s what happened: On Nov. 20, I was sitting on a bench at the 14th Street F train station when a man approached and started punching me in the head. The man fled, and an MTA worker who witnessed the attack called the police. The next few hours passed in a blur.

I was transported to Lenox Health Greenwich Village, where I was treated for a concussion. A police officer told me that I should file a police report, so that I could get my medical bills covered by New York State’s Office of Victim Services. I did, but only for that reason.

The MTA worker who witnessed the attack told me that the man who assaulted me is black, homeless and was often seen sleeping in the station. (I did not see my assailant.) The case remains open — making me concerned that the MTA police will use my assault as a reason to target black, homeless men they find in the subways. (Police often round up innocent people who, they claim, “fit the description” of suspects.)

It is not a crime to be homeless and seeking shelter in the subways. Nor is it a crime to be black, but violence by police officers is a leading cause of death for young black men, according to the National Academy of Sciences.

The de Blasio administration may indeed have ended the “stop and frisk” policy that so disproportionately affected blacks and Latinos under Mayor Bloomberg, but the practice is alive and well in new guises, as police beat up teens and crack down on churro vendors in the subways. Last week, a number of police officers in South Brooklyn stepped forward to sue the Police Department for racial discrimination, saying that their higher-ups had instructed them to ignore infractions by white and Asian people and instead urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile. Activists have held rallies protesting the fare-evasion crackdown.

Julia Métraux had swelling of her face and lips after a subway punching assault last month.

Given this atmosphere, I question the effectiveness of having police officers in the MTA as a measure to improve subway safety. There is little evidence to support the claim that raising the number of police officers leads to a lessening of crime. No one should be physically assaulted, in the subways or anywhere else, but I do not think that more police officers in the subways would prevent violent crimes.

The other justification for more police — fare-beating — is a non-started because fare-beating is a non-violent crime. This kind of “broken-windows” policing — the targeting of minor offenses in hopes of reducing more serious crimes — leads to the disproportionate arrests of people of color, thanks to the same inherent bias that fueled the worst element of “stop and frisk.”

I feel morally conflicted about what might happen if the man who assaulted me is identified. My attacker may be mentally ill and needs treatment rather than punishment, but I am concerned that he may attack other people, including those who cannot pay for medical treatment. Rather than cops, social workers might be tasked with helping mentally ill homeless people in the subways.

I was the victim of a violent crime, and I am in a lot of pain, but I do not want homeless, black men to become victims of profiling because of my attack, either.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

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Go directly to jail.

 

[Thank Fuck For Evil Otto]

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"Don't try to make subway safer, because that would require censuring primarily non-white people."

It would make it safer for everyone, even non-white people, but she says nay because holding people responsible for their actions is racist. How infantilizing to non-whites.

violence by police officers is a leading cause of death for young black men,

False. The leading cause of death for black men is death by black men. Black men are probably per capita the most destructive people on the planet, and none feel that more than other black men.

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[Idiocy Abroad]

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I really don't get these people. They won't use guns to defend themselves because guns are bad and cause mass shootings. They don't want to call the police or report anything because all cops are bastards whose sole mission is to relentlessly murder black men. What are you actually supposed to do when you're a victim of a crime? Just complain about it on social media if you live to tell the tale?

This is probably my biggest problem with social justice. They offer no real world solutions to any of life's unfortunate problems. Bad people exist and they do bad things. No amount of Twitter campaigning and #metoo type slacktivist hashtags is going to solve this issue. The woman in the article mentions hiring social workers to help the homeless in the subways. Has something like that ever been proven to actually work? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely believe that there is a serious mental health problem in America that needs to be addressed, but to say that you shouldn't defend yourself or seek action against an attacker because innocent people might be targeted instead is just absurd.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

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Nor is it a crime to be black

big if true

 

[Otterly]

The woman in the article mentions hiring social workers to help the homeless in the subways. Has something like that ever been proven to actually work?

not on its own. The closing of long term psychiatric places have a lot to answer for. Hire social workers by all means, but as one small part of an approach that includes proper psychiatric help for those who need it, policing (with all the unpopular but effective stuff like stop and search, zero tolerance for violence etc) and joined up processes which mean people who have mental problems are treated properly and taken off the streets and the simply violenT are met with effective policing.
Just fluffy social workers alone isn’t going to do shit. You need a carrot and a stick and they have to be connected.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

The year art censorship came back in style

archived 18 Dec 2019 15:32:35 UTC

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The year art censorship came back in style
by Madeline Fry
| December 16, 2019 04:44 PM

In late June, the San Francisco Board of Education gathered to resolve a problem that had recently been brought its attention. An 83-year-old, Depression-era mural on the walls of one San Francisco high school had started to bother some people. Painted by left-leaning artist Victor Arnautoff, the 13-panel artwork in George Washington High School had been created through a New Deal art program. Arnautoff had the task of painting Life of Washington, which spanned a whopping 1,600 square feet.

So as not to lionize the first president excessively, Arnautoff painted Washington standing near the body of a dead Native American man, and he also depicts enslaved African Americans. Today, after almost a century, the mural is not as liberal as it once was in the eyes of the public.

“It’s always an issue when anyone wants to remove or cover or displace art,” Board Vice President Mark Sanchez said. “But there are countervailing issues we had to look at as well. We believe students shouldn’t be exposed to violent imagery — that it’s degrading.”

The school board voted unanimously to destroy the mural, though not everyone agreed with its post-woke interpretation. When one teacher asked her freshman English class to write either in favor of or against the mural, 45 out of 49 students supported it. “The fresco shows us exactly how brutal colonization and genocide really were and are," one student wrote. "The fresco is a warning and reminder of the fallibility of our hallowed leaders.”

Two months later, the opposing sides reached a compromise: The mural would be covered up but not painted over. Still, it will no longer be seen.

But why stop there? Art censors of the world, why not also hide Francisco Goya's The Third of May 1808 or Picasso's Guernica, both startling images of conflict? In fact, a reproduction of Guernica was briefly covered up at the United Nations more than 15 years ago during a speech about the war in Iraq. It used to be that if you censored art, you had something to hide. Now, it means you're not ready to face reality.

After decades of railing against censorship in the arts, some liberals have now fully embraced it. Statues of Southern generals and Christopher Columbus are already passé. There’s a disturbing new development in art criticism among the elites, and it has nothing to do with whether Renoir was sexist in his personal life. Now, it’s not enough to critique unethical artists or their "problematic" subjects. You must also stand against depictions of bad things — because we are supposedly unprepared to see them.

Comedian and actress Sarah Silverman learned this earlier this year. She appeared in blackface during a comedy sketch in 2007 to make fun of overly woke liberals. This year, Silverman said it came back to bite her.

“I recently was going to do a movie, two days on a movie, a really sweet part,” she said on a podcast this summer. “Then, at 11 p.m. the night before, they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface from that episode.”

It didn't matter that her whole act was meant to make fun of people who might use blackface. Her means were simply too transgressive.

This fashionable frontier in art censorship is also plaguing academia, and not just high schools. At Maryland’s Washington College, an antiracist play was recently canceled because it depicted “some characters dressed in KKK robes.” Because the bad guys were Ku Klux Klan members, The Foreigner, a pro-immigrant comedy, was canceled an hour before its last dress rehearsal. Heaven forbid a work of art depict anything actually evil.

Author Joyce Carol Oates recently regretted that Flannery O'Connor's antiracist short story The Artificial N----- was excluded from an anthology because “publishers refused it on the grounds of an ‘offensive’ title.” Oates explained that it was “futile to explain that O'Connor was excoriating racism, not promoting it.”

Art censors may argue, as Sanchez did about the Washington mural, that viewing violent or disturbing imagery is "degrading." But there's another problem that art viewers face, one that is possibly the most degrading of all: ignorance. When you're so afraid of offending people, you lose your ability to make art, and when you refuse to address evil, you lose your ability to stop it.

'Member when liberals made fun of the attorney general for covering up Lady Justice's nipple? At least he never tried to destroy the statues, as the SF Board of education initially voted to do with this mural.

 

[Water-T]

What are you actually supposed to do when you're a victim of a crime? Just complain about it on social media if you live to tell the tale?

Yes. Bonus points if didn't actually happen and made it up for asspats and pitybux.

They hate cops because 1) cops can prove that they made shit up and 2) cops won't arrest someone on demand because they called them a fat rainbow haired cow

 

[Keine]

I really don't get these people. They won't use guns to defend themselves because guns are bad and cause mass shootings. They don't want to call the police or report anything because all cops are bastards whose sole mission is to relentlessly murder black men. What are you actually supposed to do when you're a victim of a crime? Just complain about it on social media if you live to tell the tale?

This is probably my biggest problem with social justice. They offer no real world solutions to any of life's unfortunate problems. Bad people exist and they do bad things. No amount of Twitter campaigning and #metoo type slacktivist hashtags is going to solve this issue. The woman in the article mentions hiring social workers to help the homeless in the subways. Has something like that ever been proven to actually work? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely believe that there is a serious mental health problem in America that needs to be addressed, but to say that you shouldn't defend yourself or seek action against an attacker because innocent people might be targeted instead is just absurd.

From what I've managed to glean from reading enough posts from these kinds of people, they want communities to police themselves basically. We're talking like "if everyone keeps an eye out for everyone else then we won't need cops!" or something to that effect.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

What are you actually supposed to do when you're a victim of a crime? Just complain about it on social media if you live to tell the tale?

They probably assume every crime is a hoax, since the "crimes" they're victims of always are.

 

[AnOminous]

From what I've managed to glean from reading enough posts from these kinds of people, they want communities to police themselves basically. We're talking like "if everyone keeps an eye out for everyone else then we won't need cops!" or something to that effect.

That won't work when they're a bunch of narcissistic shits who, if anyone else had a problem, they wouldn't have the "spoons" or some other bullshit to do anything except maybe retweet your dying gasp.

 

[General Disarray]

That subway story reminds me of a Salon piece where a white woman writer was discussing the terribleness of a fellow white woman physically detaining an urban yoot who was trying to steal her phone. The story ended with the writer saying, "she should have just let the boy run along, the devastation of a criminal record is much worse to that boy than the loss of an iPhone to that woman." Or something close. I tried to find it again but I think it got scrubbed after the inevitable mockery. Which led to that horrid comic of the bicycle being stolen.
These people, I cannot even begin to think along the lines they do. They must be incredibly sheltered and naive to the point of not even accesing their local news stories in order to hold that opinion of "broken-window" policing.

I fully support it; if the cops only stopped half of the cars rolling around with no license plates, dark tinted windows, and music that rattles your entire house a block away, lives would be saved - quite literally. We have an epidemic of black drivers who got used to getting let off or not even pursued (a policy that has since been revoked, now the cops chase your dumb ass) and cars are honking as they run through red lights, turn left by going around the person in line to make a left (!!), going so fast they lose control and fly into fucking buildings. Once you let some people slide, it will snowball so damn fast you won't believe it and by then, it's very difficult to reverse course because racism.

 

[Trilby]

From what I've managed to glean from reading enough posts from these kinds of people, they want communities to police themselves basically. We're talking like "if everyone keeps an eye out for everyone else then we won't need cops!" or something to that effect.

Which will NEVER happen. Humans really can't operate like that.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF TRANS PEOPLE IS NOW FIFTEEN SECONDS, THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

 

[ThatDumbPhilosopher]

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THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF TRANS PEOPLE IS NOW FIFTEEN SECONDS, THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

They should have thought better instead of blowing money on surgical interventions and talk about it with their parents before they threw them out.
When you play unwisely, don't expect to win.

 

[existencialdispointment]

 

[LateNightMuffin]

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Hey, 'VEX is Trans,' that's what normal people already do when they hear the word 'transgender.'

 

[Trilby]

They should have thought better instead of blowing money on surgical interventions and talk about it with their parents before they threw them out.
When you play unwisely, don't expect to win.

Important lesson here. Nobody ever listens.

 

[Vault Boy]

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I'm sure applying just that much more vinegar will attract the bees this time. After all, honey is on the wrong side of history...

 

[existencialdispointment]

so they are blaming the fans for how bad the new starwars film