I need to prepare for Christmas dinner with my lib family and need well sourced arguments, since I will attack people from the left, the side of the political spectrum that needs sources for every claim. Anyway, sources like The Intercept or Jacobin are still acceptable.

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Here's a good one if they try the "but she's said/done some things to stop mass incarceration" line:

    Growing numbers of critics have called for a 50% reduction in the number of people in prison. Yet an assessment of the rate of population decline of recent years shows that it would take seventy-five years to cut the prison population in half.

    So whatever's currently being done is woefully insufficient.

    And if they say a 50% reduction in the prison population sounds aggressive and unrealistic, point out that a reduction of this magnitude would still leave us with about 2.5 times the per-capita prison population of the U.K.