HARSHER SENTENCING DOESN’T REDUCE CRIME.

we’re not cutting off the nose to spite the face. We’re simply demonstrating that increasing the sentencing of hundreds of people and thereby justifying increases to a law and order budget HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FACE.

As a poor queer Jewish woman whose family has been poor for generations, it saddens me how people think Jews are all rich or middle class when white Jewish poverty in the States is higher than white non-Jewish poverty, and brown and black Jews have even higher rates of poverty but people tend to think none of us exist.

Hopefully we can see how oppressions are interconnected and not depend on one form of bigotry and oppression to combat another form.

Love –
mattilda

Maybe they should be punished, just like what happens if someone commits a “regular” crime.