the-real-seebs:

snitchanon:

An extract from a larger article.

Relevant, I believe, to current attitudes to the ACLU.

Why are people so boneheadedly optimistic about authority? Surely, understanding that the government in general isn’t particularly fair to minorities, even about laws that concern them is baseline SJ?

There are the demands for the same police who, as people keep pointing out, have a terrible record of ‘accidentally’ murdering people to have more power to stop protests?

It’s a position that, dare I say, smacks of the thoughtlessness of privilege.

yes, exactly this