12-12-2020, 12:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2020, 12:10 AM by danbrotherston.)
(12-11-2020, 10:17 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-11-2020, 09:31 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I am saying inequal enforcement is intended to reinforce existing inequities in our society.
I will refer to Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Or at least don't make it the first assumption. Not everyone is evil.
I'm not assuming anyone is evil....or at least, I am not suggesting any particular individual is evil. We as a society are perhaps evil, we are all complicit and all guilty in whatever outcomes we have.
There are people fighting for change, but those who accept the status quo--namely most people--are by definition maintaining inequality, that is part of our system.
Fare enforcement as a function of society is to enforce the system as it is, if the system is inequal then part of enforcement is to maintain that.
Man...I feel like I can be a backup singer for Rage Against tonight, but honestly, people who are fighting against change, either out of fear or out of convenience, are fighting FOR the inequality and other problems we have. Individually no one choice is necessarily oppressing people (although some clearly carry more weight than others), but collectively we are.