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"Debate about whether those in power wanted to kill them or were simply indifferent to their well-being only serve to determine whether the violence done to them was direct State violence or a form of State-sponsored violence through willful ignorance."

"Again, issues of fairness, mercy, and justice become subordinate to neoliberal notions of efficiency."

hello i just found people on birdsite trying to flirt with sparknotes' social media person(s) im. what

by the loss of faith in the very notion of community; and by the shrinking presence of the radical voices, values, and vision necessary to resist this dark neoliberal moment.

by the growth of a consumer culture that repeatedly emphasizes the satisfaction of the self over the needs of the community; by the corruption of democracy by money and by monied interests, what Henry Giroux refers to as "totalitarianism with elections"; by the mockery of a judicial process already tipped in favor of the powerful; by the militarization of the police; by the acceptance of massive global inequality; by the erasure of those unconnected to the Internet-driven modern economy;

This divide is characterized by the demonization and privatization of public services, including schools, the military, prisons, and even policing; by the growing use of prison as our primary resolution for social contradictions; by the degradation and even debasement of the public sphere and all those who would seek to democratically occupy it; by an almost complete abandonment of the welfare state; by a nearly religious reverence for marketized solutions to public problems;

....ok, the following quote is long, bear with me. it's a single sentence from Nobody, by Marc Lamont Hill, of which we were given a free copy