Fuck :,(

Jesus Fucking Christ.

I feel sick. :(

That’s insane. I don’t have it in me right now to look further into this. I’m sure there are plenty of testimonies and accounts that are terrible and difficult to read. I just can’t. The spectre of that being part of the deal for our incarcerated sisters makes me fear prison even more.

Given infinite opportunity for good, and we chose… violence.

Fucking Hell americans. Why are you like this?

I just want to puke

That was one of the hardest reads for such a relatively short article with not too many unfamiliar words. Fucking hell. Every American should read it.

Jesus America is a third world country.

since when are prisons “good”?

they can't 😭

wait until folks comprehend who has the highest incarcerated population on this planet.

our prisons, mental institutions, and boarding schools are all reflective of the European patriarchal colonial system that composes the framework of the foundation of the united states. just as Phoenicia made a colony so huge it supplanted Phoenicia's empire in Carthage, so too has America shifted the center of the eurocentric settler colonial project. you ask why America is why it is, the answer is because Europeans were so sure of the righteousness and superiority of their civilizations that they traveled to this continent and raped, killed, and enslaved the societies they found here.

Nah, Europe, Mexico and Canada all had the same influence but managed to avoid the prison/slavery complex with profit driven sexual torture, there's probably something else at work in the US

It’s just the place where those forces were concentrated the strongest. It could have happened anywhere but it happened in the USA.

2017 study by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project found that 75% of trans women respondents in New York state prisons were subjected to sexual violence by a correctional officer

Learn to read

Lol, and it just so happened that everywhere else has had the self control and ethical standards to avoid it.

The US sure is supremely and consistently unlucky in that regard

What are you talking about?

It's Europe's fault that transgender persons are assigned to rapey cellmates in us prisons? That is the dumbest fucking shit I have ever read, but I guess in a weird way you did answer my question.

this is a form of American Exceptionalism that ignores that Mexico and Canada both have legacies of prison/slavery complexes with profit driven sexual torture. Mexican people have reduced (perhaps even eliminated, i'm not an expert on current Mexican affairs) the presence of this influence through generations of education, healing, and resistance to imperialist tendencies coming into mesoamerica to extract everything of value. In Canada the scars of the provincial school system are still felt today with the last residential school having closed in 1997, 29 years ago. There are 34 year olds alive today who remember first hand the sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Canadian sponsored torture facilities. Canadian police continue the practice of driving indigenous women far away from the warmth of their homes, forcing them to walk through the cold, condemning them to death.

There is nothing special that makes America more wrong than any other State. it is merely a coagulation of the worst tendencies present in all states concentrated by the capitalist necessity to extract everything of value from the land and people. The solution is for the people of the world, everywhere they are, to block the barricades until Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, Palestine, the Dakotas, and everywhere else the imperial tendencies of the global north torture, lynch, and enslave the people are free. America's torture is resistable just like the tortures conducted in Mexico and Canada.

Not present day Europe's, but we have to understand what the outcomes and origins of settler colonialism are in order to understand how to resist it. American Exceptionalism is rooted in the notion the white Europeans are superior to Black Africans, indigenous Americans, and Asian and Pacific Islander people. There is an America today because in the 1500-1700s the European monarchies under the protocapitalist framework of mercantilism sought to own the entire world, including the inhabitants therein. America's founding fathers were Europeans influenced by the enlightenment movement, and the country they built was reflective of the Eurosupremacism of the time, which quickly gave way to scientific racism formulated by anglosphere thinkers to justify the industrialized rape of Africa in the 1800s.

All I'm saying is that to resist these things we have to look at the history of how they started and then resist the tendencies that brought them about

That is some primary grade deflection. Imagine being so far up the ass of their own country that they can't even admit that their country has problems of its own that needs fixing.

All this fucking shit happens in the US, and not to the same extent in most European countries, so much for your precious "it's all Europe's fault" theory.

This is a hilariously demented delusional rant.

i have not said that the US does not problems. far from it. I even said it is a coagulation of all the things that make States bad and wrong. what needs to happen is the power of the authority of the United States must be dissolved so that the process of communal healing can actually begin. the settler colonial tendencies that america promotes in the world will continue to go on unabated, just as they have for the last 6000 years, unless we resist these tendencies together

Just Americans trying to cope with their shithole the only way they know how: blame it on someone or some place else.

Places do not torture, enslave, and rape. People do. I am not interested in absolving or shifting blame, but rather in deconstructing the fascist ideologies used to justify these behaviors. In the case of American Exceptionalism the notion is that white straight cisgender males are superior to all other people, and then violently enforcing that norm.

when you see people argue that trans women should be in men's prisons, understand that this is what they argue in favor of.

Canadian police continue the practice of driving indigenous women far away from the warmth of their homes, forcing them to walk through the cold, condemning them to death.

No they don't.

the European patriarchal colonial system

Phoenicia's empire in Carthage

the eurocentric settler colonial project

https://www.wisdomofpeterson.com/

origins of settler colonialism

American Exceptionalism

white Europeans are superior

European monarchies under the protocapitalist framework of mercantilism

reflective of the Eurosupremacism of the time

scientific racism formulated by anglosphere thinkers to justify the industrialized rape of Africa

This is what it sounds like when someone from a middle class background does meth.

it is a coagulation of all the things

You could have used the word "combination" or "mix" or any other common word that everyone understands, but you chose for some reason to use "coagulation".

Now I'm not saying I don't know what my blood does when it gets exposed to air, I'm saying why are you using 5 dollar words to sound smarter than you are?

when even the .ml users are like "wtf is this nonsense I am reading"

I always like to point out that it's just the highest reported incarcerated population on the planet. There's countries way bigger than America that don't have as much freedom of information, like we're reading right now.

Eh, actually fits better, though I don't think the guy you're replying to intended it that way.

America was founded by the crazies that weren't allowed to be as repressive as they wanted to be in Europe.

the most recent incident i could find for the stretch of highway i have Friends near was 2023

i grew up in poverty

coagulate because American power is a dangerous blood clot that will give the world a stroke death if it isn't dissolved

you know Jordan Peterson, famed white supremacist, always saying how white supremacy is a bad thing

Anything's possible when you make shit up

They're right, cry about it

You're losing

They're right, cry about it

Delusional

Genuinely fucking disgusting.

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No. The US is very much a first world country. It's literally the definition. It is the US.

And this is what a capitalist country does. This is what first world countries look like.

Nah. The Scandinavian countries are what I consider true first world.

Its my fault for coming to lemmy hoping for some mindless escapism.
I get gut punched each time I open my feed. My understanding of the world shows me a bleaker, more disgusting image every time. I appreciate you sharing this and opening my eyes, thanks.

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