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"ICE = Slave Catchers / ACAB"

but there's a better hypothetical: ask what they would want to happen if they were a victim of a hate crime. should the perpetrator be merely rehabilitated? locked away for an arbitrary amount of time? executed on the spot?

https://transformharm.org/ab_resource/what-about-the-rapists-and-murderers/

Read a fucking book.

Also?

"what they would want to happen if they were a victim of a hate crime. should the perpetrator be merely rehabilitated?"

Yes.

I am a rape and murder attempt survivor. I am a hate crime survivor.

I am also a prison abolitionist, because I have this crazy, stupid idea that they are human rights, not good person rights & that the golden thread of justice is Innocent Until Proven Guilty Beyond All Doubt. I would rather 10 guilty people go free than even 1 innocent person be wrongfully convicted.

I would prefer the man who raped me, the people who abused me, the man who tried to kill me, the people who assaulted and harrassed me for hateful reasons still retain their human rights, because they are still human beings. I don't want to go anywhere near them, and I would prefer that they see social consequences for their actions--because that's the thing. Prison abolition doesn't mean victims and their families don't get a say, doesn't mean I don't want consequences to be visited on them. To put it in a pithy, memey way:

This is a silly way of pointing out the difference between social consequences and legal ones, but there is a difference nonetheless. Do I have the emotion of anger at the people who have been cruel and sometimes left me with permanent harm? Yeah I'm pretty angry at them. I'm mean to them when they come up in conversation, I insult them a lot and I would insult them to their faces if I ever saw them again, and mock them openly and my friends would too, and if we lived in the same community anymore I would warn people about them and try my best to make sure they were shunned and avoided so others would be safer. But there's a vast chasm of difference between what I think I should be allowed to feel and think and say in social situations and what I think the State should be allowed to do to them.

I believe in Restorative Justice, because it prioritises repairing the harm done to the community and not punishing the sinful guilty. While you can't therapy someone into different morals, you'd be surprised how many people benefit from education and having their needs actually met. You know what I want from the man who tried to murder me? I want my cats and my stuff. You want to know what I want from the people who hate crimed me? I want them to be told what they did was a hate crime and that they owe me reparations.

See, us prison abolitionists want prison replaced with things like UBI, free food for all, universal healthcare, repealing harmful laws like those for loitering and sleeping in public, mental health crisis teams, conflict de-escalation + basic therapy skills and other life skills training being compulsory in public education, harm reduction centers, decriminalisation of sex work and drug use, free daycare, Montessori education, and other things that make sure people have what they need to thrive and don't have to live in a state of desperation and fear. And this is proven to cut down on ALL crime.

We also think slavery is wrong, no matter what you have done. Slavery is wrong. I cannot believe you are sitting there arguing that slavery is okay if you are deemed a bad enough person (because that's what prison IS). That's a very cruel point of view and I am tired of not calling the prison system what it is: slavery. It's slavery. Let's stop beating around the bush. It's slavery. "Slavery should be okay if someone is convicted of x crime" No. Slavery is evil and wrong PERIOD.

Further Reading:

SAVE YOURSELF

trivia in the full post!

Just wanted to focus on the last scene on Earth between my Shepard and Garrus.

First, there's the way Shepard takes care of Garrus after he's been hit, immediately rushing to his side, making sure he's alright, supporting him.

And then there's the evac. Garrus is staring at Shepard and refusing to leave:

SHEPARD: You gotta get out of here. GARRUS: And you've gotta be kidding me. SHEPARD: Don't argue, Garrus. GARRUS: We're in this till the end.

We / Till the end. You can tell Garrus is ready to die with Shepard. But obviously Shepard refuses.

The dialogue wheel can sometimes be a pain (getting us lost in translation), but it can also be heartbreaking, as it is here with the option "I won't let you die here."

But Shepard actually says:

"I need to know somebody's getting out of this alive."

But it's not just somebody. It's Garrus. Shepard needs Garrus to live.

And when they say their goodbye, you see Shepard looking ready to leave but in the background Garrus is trying to reach out, his hand is just moving as if trying to grab Shepard:

He keeps reaching out until Shepard uses his own hand to tell him to go and to escape this hell:

Their fingers don't even touch.

And then Garrus really has to stand where he is, watching Shepard leave.

And I know each goodbye is incredibly hard to watch, that they all have a way of reaching out, but I feel especially moved seeing Garrus' hand like this, and the fact that this is it. It's the goodbye at the end of a journey that was made possible thanks to the love and support between them. It made them stronger, kept them going.

And right there, Shepard needs to know Garrus is going to be safe so he can face his own death. The "we" is still there, it's very much a core part of what allows Shepard to go on. In a way, Garrus is still with him. He's with him as he goes to the Citadel and as he faces the Catalyst. He's with him till the end, really. It's just not how Garrus wants it to be.

This tumblr sexyman is your son!

wendigilly has it but its the shitty 2003 dubbed re-release edition that changed half the score and legitimately just, butchered half of the iconic scenes in the film to make it "more appealing to a broader audience." half of it was straight up censorship (Katya's garters, the shot of the razor at the beginning of the opening, the part with the ashtray, the dialogue at the end of the balcony scene) but half of it was just bizarre (changing the name of the laundromat, changing rosemary to fennel in the balcony scene dialogue even though YOU CAN STILL SEE ON THE SCREEN THAT IT'S ROSEMARY, whatever the FUCK was going on with that cgi dog, you know the one)

that's why it annoys me so much when that fuckin grandfather clock appears in Goncharov edits, THAT WASN'T EVEN IN THE ORIGINAL FILM, they edited the shot of the grandfather clock in over the final few seconds of the mirror scene because they decided emilio kissing the fingers of the severed hand and,, doing That was "gratuitous" and "disturbing"