• @vekku
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    11 months ago

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    • @BendingUnit@midwest.social
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      I call it that for several reasons.

      1. What constitutes a crime is often, and increasingly, political.
      2. What pushes/forces people into crime is almost entirely political.
      3. The for-profit prison industrial complex and the slave labor it provides are DEEPLY bound up in politics.
      4. The for-profit (gulag) prison system here in the states is bigger, crueler and even less necessary than the one I was told in school was SO scary and such a crime against humanity.
      5. Calling it a gulag system draws attention to the intentional cruelty that plagues this country, and (I hope) helps people consider that better methods are not only possible, they actually exist and work.