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Originally Posted by Despanan
As to what goes on in the prison industrial complex, your initial lack of outrage doesn't invalidate your initial outrage: we as a society are conditioned to believe that folks in prison deserve to be there. Many people are not aware of the facts. You, like many others were suffering from a lack of information. It's silly to be skeptical about selective outrage as stress is subjective and there's really only so much rage to go around. We have evolved to tune out the stuff which effects us on a less personal level.
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The girls were blamed for being there too, they were seen as deserving. It was punishment and an attempt at rehabilitation, just like the exploitation of prisoners is considered deserved and rehabilitating. The difference is is that one group is white and the other is mainly PoC.