[krapp]

>I'm convinced that the reason this stuff happens time and time again is that within activist circles, everyone is trying to outdo each other in terms of ideological fervor, leading to the most extremist policies being put out. T he people who originally professed this messaging legitimately believed these systems (ICE, the police) to be irreparably corrupt and that mere reform was impossible, and their message was coming from a place of rage, alienation and frustration.

That message inevitably got co-opted by the mainstream and watered down into something palatable, and thus ineffectual and easily ignored, but its adherents were (and remain) sincere. Not everyone is LARPing or trying to out virtue-signal each other.