If a doctor proposed banning all antibiotics but refused to answer "What about sepsis?", you'd rightly walk out of the room.
Of course the ideal should be a world without prisons. In a perfect utopian future, we would have no need for cages because we would have successfully dismantled the root causes of crime, poverty, and harm. But this smug, dismissive refusal to engage with the grittiest realities of human behavior helps absolutely nothing and actively works against her goals.
It treats a foundational question of public safety as a tiresome "gotcha" rather than a deeply legitimate human concern.
When activists retreat into pure idealism and dismiss the public's valid fears about violent crime as unworthy of a response, they don't look visionary. They look condescending, elitist, and entirely disconnected from the reality of human nature.
So I read the rest of this comic and more of her work.
The underlying logic of this deflection relies on a false dichotomy - the idea that if you dare to ask how an abolitionist world handles a rapist or a murderer, you must be a blanket defender of mass incarceration.
Over here in reality, you can fully recognize that our current justice system is deeply flawed, broken, and failing survivors, while still demanding to know what replaces the physical containment of dangerous individuals.
To frame a question about immediate physical safety as a structural roadblock is an intellectual bait-and-switch. It assumes that anyone asking for a practical plan just "doesn't get it," when in reality they just want to know how you plan to keep their loved ones safe.
The comics series "Who's Left" is garbage.
Here's how it dismisses people who lived through the communist (authoritarian) regimes of the 20gh century: by calling them old and xenophobic.
And here's how it defends those regimes:
Speaking as a lifelong left-leaning liberal: this is tankie bullshit and it deserves your contempt.
Idealism is great. Pretending idealism is a suitable replacement for realism or pragmatism is idiocy.
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