I feel like there is a tendency to burn the crops of the people we can meaningfully affect because we know we are ruled by criminals we are powerless to ever touch.

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I get the feeling a lot of the floating hostility is less about Jacob and more the current atmosphere of "accountability" as "socially nuke from orbit". Social media isn't exactly a healthy space for addressing harms done or how to move forward from that.

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One is "exile them from society by locking them in a cell with no chance for rehabilitation", the other is "exile them from society by pretending they don't exist with no chance for rehabilitation". If you think "prison is bad" means the prison building itself you're missing the point.

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it's weird to see people, especially anticarceral leftists, suggest that someone who does a bad thing should atone themselves of it by permanently removing themselves from public life, and that the public should shun them forever.

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He publicly announced that he was gonna manipulate the New York Times into publishing trans-panic and anti-Critical Race Theory coverage and then the New York Times published a profile about how influential and effective he is.

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