get some whimsy

this has happened to me too (as an adult) and I’m always like??? do you have no survival instincts??? what kind of idiot just goes around announcing their enmity towards a class of person that 1.) cannot be identified on sight 2.) comprises roughly 10% of the population and 3.) they believe to be uniquely conniving, vindictive, secretive, manipulative, and prone to petty vengeance and intense grudges???

if you genuinely believe in astrology and think that Scorpios are Evil™️, I don’t think you want to get on their bad sides if you can help it. right? right??? I don’t get it! why make unnecessary enemies with people who haven’t even wronged you yet? why make unnecessary enemies with people who haven’t even wronged you yet and also have pits of boner scorpions? and why do they before you know who they are, thus allowing them to begin secretly plotting against you?!?!

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.