Thank you very much for writing about this. Of course it absolutely makes sense: are the police going to promote a technology that's going to make them more accountable? You'd have to be incredibly naive to think that. The only possible reason this was supported by the cops was to crack down even harder on their enemies: poor people, people of color and leftists. Bravo to you for your continued excellent writing and reportage!
“we can begin to learn many of the most important lessons about how powerful institutions trick well-meaning people into tolerating a society that does not live up to its own stated values”
I stopped reading at this point. As a student of identity there is an error here that’s sends the direction of the discourse so off course as to invalidate what may follow given this occurs in a piece intended to direct attention towards greater accountability.
This error is in the phase “how powerful institutions trick”. The idea of tricking someone is to take an action that is somehow dishonest. To have an intention to lie. To be inauthentic in one’s speaking. All these are actions. The issue for me is only an individual can act. Institutions are not individuals that can act. Therefore institutions can not trick.
This (to me) speaking nonsense about non-individual identities taking action needs to be addressed. The confusion the agreement to grant courts the power to create identities in order to shield individuals from their actions must be dispelled.
At their roots, organizations and institutions turn out to be nothing more than a collection of individuals speaking a particular conversation. If that conversation ends then so does the organization or institution. What’s left behind is just stuff.
The only accountability lies with the individual. When this distinction is lost accountability goes with it.
I am not saying that the idea of organizations and institutions is wrong or bad and shouldn’t be used. I am saying the difference between identities and the possibility of accountability must be made for there to be any chance of difference outcomes rather than simply more of the same.
Thank you very much for writing about this. Of course it absolutely makes sense: are the police going to promote a technology that's going to make them more accountable? You'd have to be incredibly naive to think that. The only possible reason this was supported by the cops was to crack down even harder on their enemies: poor people, people of color and leftists. Bravo to you for your continued excellent writing and reportage!
Carceral tech company is a horrible sequence of words.
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“we can begin to learn many of the most important lessons about how powerful institutions trick well-meaning people into tolerating a society that does not live up to its own stated values”
I stopped reading at this point. As a student of identity there is an error here that’s sends the direction of the discourse so off course as to invalidate what may follow given this occurs in a piece intended to direct attention towards greater accountability.
This error is in the phase “how powerful institutions trick”. The idea of tricking someone is to take an action that is somehow dishonest. To have an intention to lie. To be inauthentic in one’s speaking. All these are actions. The issue for me is only an individual can act. Institutions are not individuals that can act. Therefore institutions can not trick.
This (to me) speaking nonsense about non-individual identities taking action needs to be addressed. The confusion the agreement to grant courts the power to create identities in order to shield individuals from their actions must be dispelled.
At their roots, organizations and institutions turn out to be nothing more than a collection of individuals speaking a particular conversation. If that conversation ends then so does the organization or institution. What’s left behind is just stuff.
The only accountability lies with the individual. When this distinction is lost accountability goes with it.
I am not saying that the idea of organizations and institutions is wrong or bad and shouldn’t be used. I am saying the difference between identities and the possibility of accountability must be made for there to be any chance of difference outcomes rather than simply more of the same.