[FredPret]

Now you’re strawmanning. Read the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42596079 says:

> “I'm surprised at this concept spreading in the US, since the system would generally benefit from having perpetual perpetrators percolating through the prison slavery system.”

A sweeping statement about the entire conceptual space of a huge country based on ideas about the private prison system manipulating an entire country.

[teachrdan]

“the system” here is specifically referencing the web of government and corporate interests that benefit from a large and growing prison population. There is no reasonable reading of this which implies the author naively believes EVERYONE supports prisons.

Please do a better job of close reading and critical thinking. Especially with “now you’re strawmanning,” the rhetorical equivalent of “I know you are but what am I?”