Injustice Systems

Wanderfound · February 12, 2022, 7:28pm

MarjaE · February 14, 2022, 12:07am

A lot of immigration and refugee studies take existing power structures as a positive good, and try to “balance” saving lives against protecting power structures.

Can anyone suggest ones which discuss social origins, etc. of both immigrants and refugees, with statistical data, and which don’t defend these power structures?

AndyHilmer · February 14, 2022, 4:37am

Refugees typically migrate from a country being fucked over by corporate empire A to either empire A or convenient opposing corporate empire B. That’s not necessarily true, but it might be a frame to investigate and find some actual new truths.

Lucy_Gothro1 · February 14, 2022, 4:41am

I want to migrate to socialist utopia Z.

MarjaE · February 14, 2022, 6:46am

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-02/underpaid-contract-nurses-who-faced-fines-lawsuits-for-quitting-fight-back?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

Nonentity · February 14, 2022, 3:25pm

Wanderfound · February 22, 2022, 9:27pm

Wanderfound · February 22, 2022, 10:43pm

jerwin · February 22, 2022, 11:58pm

sometimes the obvious needs to be stated

Lucy_Gothro1 · February 23, 2022, 12:26am

Wanderfound · February 25, 2022, 9:05pm

If you’re thinking, “well, they’re having a retrial so the system is working”…she’s still facing charges for trying to vote. She is still in danger. She is still having to pay lawyers.

So the intended function of the prosecution (intimidation of other Black people who might dare to vote) is still being achieved. The system is working.

Wanderfound · March 3, 2022, 8:52pm

Wanderfound · March 4, 2022, 1:17am

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, the court allowed the US government to block the psychologists from giving evidence in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner who was arrested in 2002 and has been held without charge ever since. The majority of the justices granted the government the privilege of “state secrets” – a power that prevents the public disclosure of information deemed harmful to national security.

Zubaydah had wanted to call the psychologists, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, to confirm that he had been unlawfully detained and tortured in a so-called CIA “black site” in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland. It is public knowledge that the prisoner was tortured in a number of black sites in several countries between 2002 and his transfer to Guantánamo four years later.

Among the many harrowing torture techniques that were applied against him, he was waterboarded – a form of controlled drowning – 83 times.

In Thursday’s ruling, the nine justices of the supreme court divided along unusual lines that crossed the traditional conservative-liberal divide. The majority opinion was written by Stephen Breyer, the court’s senior liberal justice who is retiring at the end of this term.

In his opinion, Breyer argued that the government was entitled to assert the “state secrets” privilege even though the critical information in question – in this case the location of a CIA black site in Poland – was already publicly known. Breyer agreed with the CIA that “clandestine” relations between the US and foreign intelligence services were based on trust and had to be protected in the interests of national security.

Wanderfound · March 8, 2022, 12:21am

jerwin · March 10, 2022, 2:08am

reparative justice.

Lucy_Gothro1 · March 11, 2022, 6:34pm

IMNSHO, anyone who profits off the misfortunes of others is, indeed, scum of the earth; though that is insulting to actual scum.

Wanderfound · April 28, 2022, 4:52am

MarjaE · April 30, 2022, 4:51am

Nonentity · April 30, 2022, 5:15am

The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and experience increased anti-social behavior and other difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research.

One elementary school I went to had spanking as a punishment. The principal had a wooden paddle just for those occasions. I once got to experience it due to not having turned in a homework assignment.

Anecdotally, it definitely made me a lot more defiant towards the school, and didn’t do any good at encouraging me to turn in assignments on time. Same with any physical punishment at home. So this wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

DaakSyde · April 30, 2022, 4:35pm

I don’t remember what I did to deserve it, but I do remember the paddle. Our principal made sure to let us know he was using the smooth one, not the one with the holes in it that would cause blisters - this time.

He wasn’t a bad guy though. I remember him playing wall-ball with us and being surprised that an old person could play and he was having fun.

Also, paddling wasn’t always the default punishment, just one option in the mix. Another time he had us read/copy a whole bunch of definitions from the dictionary. One day it was going all around the school picking up litter. And once when I got in a fight with another kid he made us do competitive/cooperative pushups - between the two of us we had to do some total number and whoever did the most won.

I got in trouble a lot those two years, mostly the second because they had held me back a year and I had already done all the classes so I was bored.

As a kid, I was always pretty defiant to authority. Can’t really say whether spanking had any effect on that. Just seems like rebelling and defying authority is a natural part of being a kid and asserting yourself, since you’re pretty much powerless otherwise.