Recent content by Politesse

See, this is why other people read things before commenting on them. That does that not describe the situation accurately in the slightest. Perry tweeted that he was going to go kill some BLM protesters, then drove a car into a crowd of people, including Foster's wheelchair-bound wife, and...

Not true, slavery was marginalized for most of Christian history, not eradicated but a sea change from the Hellenistic world that preceded it. The practice didn't pick up steam again until the 16th century, and we all know when it fell in to popular disfavor again. This does not excuse the...

The numbers aren't too surprising when you realize how common these pro-carceral attitudes are. While not all Americans believe in throwing every vagrant or shoplifter or alleyway urinator into the Chateau d'If and forgetting about them, plenty do. Our country wasn't founded by such principles...

The State of California detains around 93,000 people at an annual operating cost of ~14.5 billion dollars. We house a similar number of federal prisoners, supposedly not at our expense, though they certainly become our problem when released.

ie. allow prisoners to leave when their sentence has concluded. I note that instead of arresting and detaining murderers, who have committed an actual crime, you want us to focus on arresting the poor for being poor. Or are you claiming, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that the shooter...

Racists generally do not accord any special privileges to whites who miscegnate.

Indeed. I had no intention of defending Perry, who transparently and by his own words was a openly racist vigilante with violent intent, who came to that rally in order to kill BLM protestors. That his fatal victim was white in no way excuses his actions. It is, in fact, illegal to murder...

I'm not "missing" anything. We're discussing slavery.

Yes. You have the right to choose what to do with your body. No one has the right to take that choice from you.

If you'd like to know more about Foster, who was also a veteran of the Air Force, I highly recommend this Rolling Stone interview with his widow...

It was a BLM protest, and many of Perry's intended victims were black, but Garrett Foster, the man he shot to death, was white.

What's more polite than asking someone's pardon?

Yup. Expect a lot more "self-defense" murders at public protests this summer.

No, it really isn't. There is no convincing moral argument that should make my body justifiably the property of someone else in perpetuity. If we do not have bodily autonomy, what else do we have? Almost all social rules stem from personal volition and autonomy, or at least become unenforceable...

Hamas is a terrorist organization whose actions are unjustifiable and unforgiveable. The difference between you and me is that when I meet a terrorist, my first thought is to eschew their methods, not to try and match their level of depravity in my actions toward them, still less to draw new...