Hey Americans protesting to "free" Australia, worry about your own country.
People can simultaneously want two things.
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist
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#12This isn't surprising. Even before the Civil War, the justice system was used to target and disrupt the black community as well as line the pockets of the local white community.
We see this historical in this story where they trawl for charges that fit, and when they can't find one, they make one up "criminal responsibility for conduct of another.". Even the filter system they use is inconsistent in it's verbiage of "TRUE threat" and "TRUE threat" having no actual meaning.
Meanwhile, the judge and jailers keep their jobs and the cops involved serve a weekend's worth of leave.
>...At another meeting a commissioner said it would be “cool” if, instead of being a cost center, the jail could be a “profit center.”
To folks outside of the US, turning jails into profit centers would be abhorrent and incompatible with a country that claims to be "the freest in the world" or what have you. But when you look at the history of the country and it's actual principles, this is very much in line with history.
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#14Sorry but with the limited time children have, I would rather they spend any available time on practical material like STEM, rather than material of limited rigor pushed by activists. I have nothing against a factual historical education, but we already have social studies for that. I have no doubt these new ethnic studies classes will be used to push controversial, poorly evidenced concepts like “white privilege” an…
What are you talking about? How does anything you’re saying relate to the article?
I assume that the parent commenter saw something about systemic racism negatively affecting the black community, and decided to air their grievances about Critical Race Theory which is taught at the graduate studies level.
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#15Hey Americans protesting to "free" Australia, worry about your own country.
That's a very specific group to address. Who are these Americans protesting to "free" Australia?
Australia is currently being portrayed in the right-wing US media as being a police state due to the lockdown laws.
Most of the complaints are tone-deaf and completely ignorant of the actual situation on the ground, which has rustled a few of our jimmies.
Still, I don't see the relevance of that comment here. This article is about black kids getting thrown in juvie when it causes nothing but harm to both them and the community; a problem that exists here too (mainly in the NT).
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#16The judge, Davenport, sounds like an insane person.
Ye. How does it work? Does she need to be reelected or is the chair for life?
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#17If this is true, it's insane. Really, in a "civilised" country ?
When there's no oversight by decent people, this can happen. Hence the importance of fair elections, education, and scrutiny, in particular for corruption.
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#18The judge, Davenport, sounds like an insane person.
Ye. How does it work? Does she need to be reelected or is the chair for life?
Apparently, she's elected to an 8-year term and makes a whopping $176,000 a year. I've been told that if you fail the bar 3 times as a lawyer, you kind of become untouchable in some respects. The judge failed the bar 4-times, and is still allowed destroy lives.
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#19From the article: promotional video for the center, which is expanding as a business and contracting with other counties in neighboring states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoy0sq4noQ
The judge (Davenport) and facility manager (Duke) are still being paid well for their work in jailing children on dubious legal basis.
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#20“ I’m here on a mission. It’s not a job. It’s God’s mission”
So much for the separation of church and state. It’s like something from the Taliban