Criminality: Weed #6 (FV Ep. 28)

Feral Visions

When violent crime is discussed in mainstream echo chambers, is the term more likely to be associated with polluting lakes & damming rivers or a stabbing? I’ll bet you know the answer. Yet, which is overwhelmingly more catastrophic for people and the planet? What a deadly bias. Who & what benefits from that limited interpretation of crime? Who and what doesn’t? There we go again with that *disproportionate focus on individuals obscuring institutional wrongdoings. Not only have conventional notions of crime in the settler colonial US always been anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, classist, homophobic, and transphobic. They also open the floodgates for incarceration, banking off caged labor, increased surveillance, ripping apart families, siphoning off taxpayer dollars from vital social services, and pitting communities against one another. Ultimately, one of the most dangerous consequences of “normal” understandings of criminality is that they let annihilationist companies off the hook as they’re racing to push humanity off a cliff into unbridled climate chaos. In a settler colonial empire, who gets to define crime? And who pays the price? Let’s unlearn propaganda around criminality to clarity which corporate culprits really need 2 be held accountable. PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.” Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you. PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Or you could make any offerings this week out to @CriticalResistance plz 💐 Thanks fam. Patreon: www.patreon.com/liberationspring Paypal: www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_dona…2egif%3aNonHosted More at: liberationspring.com