TRAHR@quokk.au to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 days agoTIL about V-Coding the systemic rape of trans women in US prisons to try to “calm” violent men.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down114 cross-posted to: boycottus@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1286arrow-down1external-linkTIL about V-Coding the systemic rape of trans women in US prisons to try to “calm” violent men.en.wikipedia.orgTRAHR@quokk.au to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square120linkfedilink cross-posted to: boycottus@lemmy.ca
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·5 days agothat’s revisionist as fuck east India company anyone? what about the literal Aztec empire and human slave sacrifice we just tend to be temporally biased
minus-squareBrainsploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoNeither have had for-profit prisons with systematised sexual torture, but even if they did I’d lean into the recency bias and ask: if they could move past it, why did the US double down when faced with better alternatives?
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agowait you think east india wasnt about profit and had no sexual abuse? they didn’t ‘move past it’ the British got fucked militarily and aztec society collapsed we’re on schedule for either end atm the us isnt gonna stop doing any of this before them either rich abusive fucks wont stop because you protest peacefully or virtue signal on the interwebs
that’s revisionist as fuck
east India company anyone?
what about the literal Aztec empire and human slave sacrifice
we just tend to be temporally biased
Neither have had for-profit prisons with systematised sexual torture, but even if they did I’d lean into the recency bias and ask: if they could move past it, why did the US double down when faced with better alternatives?
wait you think east india wasnt about profit and had no sexual abuse?
they didn’t ‘move past it’
the British got fucked militarily and aztec society collapsed
we’re on schedule for either end atm
the us isnt gonna stop doing any of this before them either
rich abusive fucks wont stop because you protest peacefully or virtue signal on the interwebs