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This tweet makes two claims:
"The carceral state exists to protect private property"
This is flatly wrong. The massive increase in incarcerations has little to do with the protection of bodies and privately held property. In fact mass incarceration is in direct opposition to private property. Pickup any libertarian treatise. Property rights begin with self-ownership, ownership of the body. In a free society, an anarcho-capitalist society, incarceration by force would be inconsistent with prevailing laws.
Politicians pretend to be defending property rights because property rights are popular, but many more people are incarcerated, or are introduced to incarceration through victimless crimes. Indeed, many crimes people are picked up for occur on public property. The state's property is always the most dangerous because they are poor stewards of property.
Which brings me to the tie in to white supremacy:
The origin of many of these "lifestyle crimes" is in the early progressive era, when whites with elite educations saw it as their duty, or "burden", to socially engineer minorities, immigrants, and especially Black Americans. They wanted to make everyone effective soldiers and factory workers. They learned the techniques because they had to go to Europe to get PhDs because American universities did not grant them at this time. They admired the military-like precision of Prussian society. This was the birth of social science in the US.
This is the much more destructive form of white supremacy, especially today. The white supremacy of Hillary Clinton, a full throated Methodist. The Methodists were the most fanatical of the late 19th century pietists. They preached the "social gospel" and encouraged whites to seek salvation by turning anyone darker than them (at this time Irish, Polish, and Italian Catholics were also on their list) into WASPs.
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