Gets applied to leftist forms of social justice way too often and people who do bad stuff are labelled as “just bad” and they need to be killed or imprisoned because they’re “monsters” and IDK I just find the idea that so many people, anyone who’s ever fucked up or done something problematic is irredeemable to be… really scary and bad.
People are redeemable. I don’t believe in prisons. If you believe in the possibility of social change without simply massacring anyone who holds a position of privilege, you have to believe in the possibility of redemption, of learning better.
I also think it’s really fucked how the people who admit their wrongdoings are the ones we jump down the throats of.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 