Shame on Joe Biden for pardoning his son. This is just wrong. It doesn't matter if the other side lives by avoiding justice and decency, it's still wrong for progressive minded people to do it. We MUST stand behind the notion that the rich and powerful and elite are not above justice.
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Wrong. Your liberalism continues to operate on default Whiteness. Which is say, the remainder of supremacist thinking.
Is pardoning thousands for marijuana wrong? Biden did that. Governors do the same thing. So your “rich and powerful elite” claim fails. Is pardoning thousands of undocumented immigrants wrong? Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million.
But your claim that there is an “other side” is the central failing of supremacist equivalency making. There is no other side. There is no legitimate conservative framing of justice to respectfully debate with. There is only fascist demagoguery and a mass willingness to ignore the system of laws and courts by those who will assume leadership - if only by erasure and destruction - of our constitutional structure and and a century+ of appropriate bipartisan due diligence. Not only do they not identify Jan 6 as an insurrection and Trump as a convicted felon. They are determined to abuse justice for their personal grievances and gain.
We cannot ignore or abide it.
Europeans hid Jews from Nazis. Some of those Jews were criminals. Should they have handed them over for their crimes?
Injustice toward one is injustice toward all.
Essentially, when injustice is done to any individual, it affects the well-being and sense of security of everyone in a community,
I don't know what you're saying or what "default whiteness" has to do with wanting to see the very rich and powerful held accountable for misdeeds, especially in the context of the corruptly lawless Trump.
No, pardoning undocumented immigrants isn't wrong... they've done no harm and the only misdemeanors they "committed" were/are irrational and unjust. And I GET that the maga GOP is stating they're committed to abusing the justice system for their own personal grievance and gain. I don't see what that has to do with holding H Biden accountable for misdeeds he's clearly done.
Oppressed people understand that justice is never fair and equal. That the very inequality of the application so very often snatches up people not because they’ve done wrong - like so many unsnatched others - but because the snatches are related to targeted groups. When the police target some people and not others just because of who they are… AND when the punishment is carried on by passionate interest that the targeted criminal hurt more than others, when increasing the suffering is desired… oppressed people know that that is injustice. Even if the man did it, he exists in a context where he is the one that is wanted in a special way apart from all others having done the same thing.
Whiteness does not want to see the prejudicializing of our justice administration as ill-legitimizing. We believe in ourselves as just.
Hunter Biden would not serve Just time.
A German Jewish embezzler in 1938 would not serve Just time.
A gay thief in 1960 would not serve Just time.
Trans women addict now does not serve Just time.
You yourself are advocating treating Hunter Biden as a member of a group. The rich and powerful. Has the President pardoned a thousand such people?
What did the President say? You didn’t address it.
You yourself admit that the incoming administration - with Hunter Biden’s name on their lips - will administer a corrupt justice. But, because Hunter Biden is a member of the group, “rich and powerful”, you don’t mind.
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