U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers

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While protesters for Black lives across the country are being met with the same kind of brutalizing behavior that led them to the streets in the first place, many are beginning to consider whether the institution of policing can be saved at all. Leading the charge is an increasingly broad and diverse group of organizers, academics, and even politicians who have begun to consider whether the twin institutions of policing and incarceration are worth the suffering they seem incapable of evading. Though the abolition of prisons and policing is often dismissed as unimaginably radical, these advocates contend that our communities would be safer and healthier were we to divert the funds we spend on these measures towards bettering economic, housing, and health outcomes in the most vulnerable neighborhoods.

It may be difficult for many of us to begin to imagine public safety and accountability that does not rely on police and prisons, but two modern cartoons, Rebecca Sugar‘s Steven Universe and Noelle Stevenson‘s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, are both replete with abolitionist themes that can inspire us to commit to new ways of keeping each other safe.

In Steven Universe, Steven and the other Crystal Gems use “bubbling” to hold in stasis the gem monsters they defeat. Unlike incarceration, bubbling doesn’t actively harm the gem monsters, but Steven recognizes as early as Season 1’s “Monster Buddies” that the Crystal Gems should seek to heal the corruption—described by Garnet as a tear in the fabric of the mind—that causes gems to turn into monsters rather than bubble them indefinitely.

In Season 3’s “Monster Reunion,” Steven discovers that the gem monsters were corrupted by experiencing violence: an analogy that holds true in the real world, where experiencing childhood violence makes people more likely to later commit acts of violence themselves. The quest to heal and release the corrupted gems becomes a major narrative arc of the show, concluding in “Change Your Mind” when Steven and the Diamonds who were responsible for the violence that created the corruption in the first place work together to begin to repair the harm they’ve caused.

But Steven Universe’s abolitionist ethic isn’t limited to pursuing an alternative to bubbling; it also governs how the Crystal Gems reintegrate various antagonists back into society rather than discarding them, even when those antagonists have been responsible for sometimes unimaginable offenses. Lapis Lazuli turned the Crystal Gems over to Peridot, who tried to kill them. Spinel tried to destroy Earth. The Diamonds successfully completed countless whole-world genocides.

But Steven recognizes that these antagonists’ harmful behavior was usually rooted in various traumatic experiences; Lapis and Spinel, for instance, both spent thousands of years abandoned and trapped in isolation. Steven devotes nearly all of his energy towards beginning to heal those traumas, rather than towards punishing the Gems for the harm they’ve caused. By the end of the series, Lapis, Peridot, Spinel, and the Diamonds are all in community with Steven and engaged in ongoing reparative and transformational work on themselves and each other.

Steven Universe also recognizes that none of us are immune from engaging in harmful behavior; all of the trauma Steven experiences catches up to him in Steven Universe: Future, and he himself becomes corrupted and turns into a gem monster. But his community, now well-versed in resolving disputes and healing trauma, responds in kind, with Garnet explaining, “As long as he believes he’s a monster, he’ll stay one.” This community support helps Steven recover his humanity.

In She-Ra, the protagonists similarly avoid a retributive response to characters who engage in harmful behavior. Both Scorpia and later Catra (major foils for Adora and her friends throughout the first three seasons) are welcomed into the Rebellion once they make a commitment to abandon the Horde. And just as in Steven Universe, there is no clearly delineated division between “bad” antagonists and “good” protagonists. Entrapta joins the Rebellion, but often seriously hurts her friends and allies with her blind pursuit of technological advancement; Glimmer’s willingness to use the Heart of Etheria weapon against the wishes of her allies in Season 4 exposes the planet to incredible danger.

This is not to say that the reintegration of any of these characters back into their communities is effortless or simple. Both the offenders and those close to them often face a lengthy struggle to process the physical and emotional consequences of the harm done. But because time and resources aren’t spent on incarceration and retribution, this ongoing, difficult, interpersonal work gets the energy it needs to be successful.

The abolitionist ethics of Steven Universe and She-Ra start with seeing the full humanity of wrongdoers, as opposed to reducing individuals to the worst decisions they have made. It requires a persistence and a dedication to these values. Adora continues to seek to bring Catra back into community despite Catra’s repeated incalcitrance; Steven makes the same efforts with Peridot and Lapis. It also requires holding offenders accountable to a commitment to repair. Yellow Diamond explained her approach to this commitment, “After all the damage I’ve done, it’s only right to use my powers for a little reconstructive work on the gems I’ve hurt.”

Anyone curious about how safety and accountability might work without the policing and prisons we’ve come to rely on need look no further than the examples set by Steven Universe and She-Ra. Perhaps the question is not whether we can imagine this kind of world, but whether we have the fortitude to build it.

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Anyone who legitimately takes policy from cartoon shows, especially those made for kids/tumblerites needs to eat a bullet. Just a little info in both these shows genocidal psycopaths are able to change their entire mindset with a short talk. They are the furthest from reality and are honestly worse then poeple who take political position from shows like familly guy.
 
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Robert James said:
Anyone who legitimately takes policy from cartoon shows, especially those made for kids/tumblerites needs to eat a bullet. Just a little info in both these shows genocidal psycopaths are able to change their entire mindset with a short talk. They are the furthest from reality and are honestly worse then poeple who take political position from shows like familly guy.
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Parents should teach their kids its alright to like cartoons but its just entertainment. Not a fucking gospel on how to live their lives.

Or just beat them if they're acting up. If more kids were beaten, we might not have SJWs today en mass. In Postal 2 of course.
 
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Sheryl Nome said:
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While protesters for Black lives across the country are being met with the same kind of brutalizing behavior that led them to the streets in the first place, many are beginning to consider whether the institution of policing can be saved at all. Leading the charge is an increasingly broad and diverse group of organizers, academics, and even politicians who have begun to consider whether the twin institutions of policing and incarceration are worth the suffering they seem incapable of evading. Though the abolition of prisons and policing is often dismissed as unimaginably radical, these advocates contend that our communities would be safer and healthier were we to divert the funds we spend on these measures towards bettering economic, housing, and health outcomes in the most vulnerable neighborhoods.

It may be difficult for many of us to begin to imagine public safety and accountability that does not rely on police and prisons, but two modern cartoons, Rebecca Sugar‘s Steven Universe and Noelle Stevenson‘s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, are both replete with abolitionist themes that can inspire us to commit to new ways of keeping each other safe.

In Steven Universe, Steven and the other Crystal Gems use “bubbling” to hold in stasis the gem monsters they defeat. Unlike incarceration, bubbling doesn’t actively harm the gem monsters, but Steven recognizes as early as Season 1’s “Monster Buddies” that the Crystal Gems should seek to heal the corruption—described by Garnet as a tear in the fabric of the mind—that causes gems to turn into monsters rather than bubble them indefinitely.

In Season 3’s “Monster Reunion,” Steven discovers that the gem monsters were corrupted by experiencing violence: an analogy that holds true in the real world, where experiencing childhood violence makes people more likely to later commit acts of violence themselves. The quest to heal and release the corrupted gems becomes a major narrative arc of the show, concluding in “Change Your Mind” when Steven and the Diamonds who were responsible for the violence that created the corruption in the first place work together to begin to repair the harm they’ve caused.

But Steven Universe’s abolitionist ethic isn’t limited to pursuing an alternative to bubbling; it also governs how the Crystal Gems reintegrate various antagonists back into society rather than discarding them, even when those antagonists have been responsible for sometimes unimaginable offenses. Lapis Lazuli turned the Crystal Gems over to Peridot, who tried to kill them. Spinel tried to destroy Earth. The Diamonds successfully completed countless whole-world genocides.

But Steven recognizes that these antagonists’ harmful behavior was usually rooted in various traumatic experiences; Lapis and Spinel, for instance, both spent thousands of years abandoned and trapped in isolation. Steven devotes nearly all of his energy towards beginning to heal those traumas, rather than towards punishing the Gems for the harm they’ve caused. By the end of the series, Lapis, Peridot, Spinel, and the Diamonds are all in community with Steven and engaged in ongoing reparative and transformational work on themselves and each other.

Steven Universe also recognizes that none of us are immune from engaging in harmful behavior; all of the trauma Steven experiences catches up to him in Steven Universe: Future, and he himself becomes corrupted and turns into a gem monster. But his community, now well-versed in resolving disputes and healing trauma, responds in kind, with Garnet explaining, “As long as he believes he’s a monster, he’ll stay one.” This community support helps Steven recover his humanity.

In She-Ra, the protagonists similarly avoid a retributive response to characters who engage in harmful behavior. Both Scorpia and later Catra (major foils for Adora and her friends throughout the first three seasons) are welcomed into the Rebellion once they make a commitment to abandon the Horde. And just as in Steven Universe, there is no clearly delineated division between “bad” antagonists and “good” protagonists. Entrapta joins the Rebellion, but often seriously hurts her friends and allies with her blind pursuit of technological advancement; Glimmer’s willingness to use the Heart of Etheria weapon against the wishes of her allies in Season 4 exposes the planet to incredible danger.

This is not to say that the reintegration of any of these characters back into their communities is effortless or simple. Both the offenders and those close to them often face a lengthy struggle to process the physical and emotional consequences of the harm done. But because time and resources aren’t spent on incarceration and retribution, this ongoing, difficult, interpersonal work gets the energy it needs to be successful.

The abolitionist ethics of Steven Universe and She-Ra start with seeing the full humanity of wrongdoers, as opposed to reducing individuals to the worst decisions they have made. It requires a persistence and a dedication to these values. Adora continues to seek to bring Catra back into community despite Catra’s repeated incalcitrance; Steven makes the same efforts with Peridot and Lapis. It also requires holding offenders accountable to a commitment to repair. Yellow Diamond explained her approach to this commitment, “After all the damage I’ve done, it’s only right to use my powers for a little reconstructive work on the gems I’ve hurt.”

Anyone curious about how safety and accountability might work without the policing and prisons we’ve come to rely on need look no further than the examples set by Steven Universe and She-Ra. Perhaps the question is not whether we can imagine this kind of world, but whether we have the fortitude to build it.

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Fuck you Tahir you bitchass nigga
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Fucking get cancelled by the furfag
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Has anyone told sonicfox the proper way to lob a molotov yet? I'm rather concerned for the guy, 'cause fursuits aren't exactly the hardest things to light on fire. And you know he's just -got- to lob one, or else he's not really dedicated to the cause.
 
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Lauren Southern is a CSIS agent. She fucking glows, dude.
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Pressing X to doubt on that. Southern has always been alt-lite at worst. I'd put her solidly in the e-thot grifter category, with aspirations for turning that into mainstream relevance as a right-wing talking head or op-ed writer.
 
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OttoWest said:
There‘s a worrying fixation on “domestic disturbance” calls in all of these police defunding/abolition demands. On NPR the other day the co-founder of BLM Patrisse Cullors specifically singled out domestic distrurbance calls as something that should be deprioritized by police and handed over to a third (unarmed) party.

One of the reasons they don’t like these visits is because DV calls can lead to additional charges— usually drug and weapons possession or an outstanding warrant— which only proves how dangerous the situations are a d how quickly they can escalate.

None of these idiots have spent a single iota of time working at or volunteering for a DV shelter because if they had they’d shut the fuck up about this.
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So in other words, they don’t like police responding to DV calls because that results in criminals getting caught for all their crimes. Nice.
 
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Observotron said:
I know very little about SU, but aren't the Gems essentially police?
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Literal genocidal supremacist that have wiped out multiple intelligent civilizations, they have a strict cast system, to them anyone below you is disposable and they suddenly do a 180 and decide all life is precious because the main character has a talk with them about how killing is bad.

The crystal Jems are the remenants of one of the leaders going through their edgy phase. Through most of the show they are glorified tard ranglers either dealing with steven, teaching gems to behave, or taking care of feral gems.
 
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Robert James said:
I think I said this back last week, These riots are either going to lead to more quarantine and corona becoming a huge problem or it will get people to riot more because they realize the three months of lock down that cost them their job was for nothing.
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In case of the former, who's going to enforce a new quarantine now though? The police who have been told by everyone around them that they're horrible racist monsters and to fuck off and die? Are they just going to double down on shaming everyone to stay inside by screaming even louder that they're literally genociding black bodies every time they go outside?
 
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The specter of racism, white supremacy, Trump (he's gonna be a forever-scapegoat like Nixon and Reagan), etc. Same old garbage. They certainly won't ever blame "POC" or Democratic plantation policies.
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Lemme just hop in my time machine and see what the news is saying in the future. Oh look! a clipping from 2028:

"Alt-Right bots fake crime stats to intimidate people of color
Figureheads promote false crime statistics

"It's almost ten years ago this month that Minneapolis PD was no more, it's long, dark past of racism and classist law enforcement forever banished. While citizens are statistically happier, safer, and more prosperous than anytime in the last 88 years, local influencers consisting of Far-Right, antiestablishment bots, trolls, and supremacists (both male and white of course) have been continuously publishing misleading, artificially created pictures of the crime rate in the city.

One report headline reads: "Highest crime rate in the world, but you're a criminal if you admit it." asserting that crime is happening more often, more brutally, and is nearly unenforced outside of the uppercrust housing developments where only the most powerful elite may tread. One anonymous quote from a retiring police captain reads: "I can't wait to leave. You can't imagine the suffering we see for normal folks. Rape, murder, torture, every awful, corrosive act is essentially legal. If we are called to a sufficiently violent scene to arrest, we are usually met with a 'Rehabilitation specialist' who advocates for the criminal to be allowed to leave with nothing more than a ticket. We routinely find young, middle school aged girls forcibly abducted an pushed into sexual slavery as a punishment for families that refused to comply with protection fees or provide resources to local gangs.

{ED: 'gangs' is a far-right term referring to the many Private Protective services in the city, those groups who provide vital security services to small organizations. It's a racist term owing to their heritage as allegedly being former criminal enterprises. we apologize for the hateful language}

If you're not doing everything in your power to get the hell out of the city, you're part of what's wrong with this city. This place is inhuman when members of MS-13 are among the protective detail for city council members. If you think crime is low, it's not. We just aren't allowed to admit it. Everything we would record is reframed to make the offender guiltless and not even press charges. Murder is a sorry set of circumstances, rape was a lack of clarity in the bedroom. " Now that I'm retired I can speak up and send this around, I've kept my own independent records of what I saw in my journal at home. I hope the work I've done helps to shine a light on this injustice and expose the absolute lunacy of our city council"

The author has not been identified by the police, though many believe it's the recently deceased Javi Gutierrez Villalba, a recently retired police captain of 34 years. His home was found on a sunday morning burned to the ground, having been burned to the ground after his suicide attempt. At this time the Minneapolis city council is fining those caught complicitly assisting in the spread of this falsified information, up to 3 years in prison, or if convicted of having contributed to the distribution of said hate speech to more than 500 people, 10 years in prison.
 
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