Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Metropolitan DC Local Politics
Reply to "Stolen paintings"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess the owner of that private property gets to decide what the appropriate consequence is...and seems to be asking for the thief to be banned from the art/community center, not to get a hug. But you likely knew that if you read the article.[/quote] I’m sorry, but SJW “centered” approaches to crime are so unintentionally comical, poorly reasoned and are just getting so clichéd. The overuse of the “language of oppression” with words and terms like “restorative”, “holistic, non-punitive approaches to healing” and a focus on the feelings and needs of the assailants. Like, really? I agree with none of it. I’m so tired of this period in history. We’ll look back on these progressive approaches to criminal justice the same way we look at disco. An interesting fad without longevity. In the thousands of years of human evolution, basically letting people know their behavior is only kept in check by a hug and getting asked some personal questions about why they stole something, has never been shown to work. It’s idiotic. What has worked is removing violent or criminal types and jailing them. Instead we get performative wokeness lessons from untalented “artists”. I bet all her art is focused on super trite, obvious topics like gentrification and what not as well. I just can’t. Everyone is so annoying these days.[/quote] You know you are right but then we should really apply the law to everybody. But then the black immigrant woman who mistakenly thought she could and informed the people at the poll so her vote was held as a provisional ballot and never counted is given five years in prison, the black guy who came out of orison 20 yrs ago snd votes three months before his probation ends because the parole guy mistakenly told him he could vote is arrested and faces prosecution, while the white MAGA who fraudently voted for his dead MiL by mail and confirmed the vote when the state sent a letter to the dead MIL asking her to confirm that she had voted faced no prosecution, or Younkin’s then 17 your kid allegedly tries to vote twice on election day even though he is s minor and faces no consequences. I am ok to give 5 years in prison to whoever votes and does not have a right to if everybody goes to jail, not Black people who make a mistake while White people knowingly committing fraud face no consequences [/quote] Dude, whatever, sure. I am talking about violent crime and robbery, both of which have skyrocketed in major cities since we’ve shifted toward a less punitive approach to crime since about 2020, after the George Floyd riots and subsequent move toward adopting progressive criminal justice reform and lessening prosecutions, all while lowering police budgets. The article is about a bohemian artist, with a kind heart, but ultimately know idea what she’s talking about. She basically “doesn’t engage with police” and that’s a huge issue right now because we actually need the police. We need judges and das who want to prosecuted we need to stop sending the message to criminals that restorative Justice is all they will get if they steal, stab or rape. So basically, as someone who grew up in the inner city, and having seen the prior crime waves, I’m sick of these naive, idealist who basically want to infantilize criminals and who don’t believe in accountability. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics