Please be more precise. Though DC might have been the murder capital at the time that you went to the Taj Mahal that one time, it is no longer nor is it among the top ten. While it is still an unsafe city, to say that it is ” D.C. is the Murder Capital, and the city lives up to its hype” as in, currently, is false and misleading, especially with no timeline as to when this event took place.
I’m all for personal accounts to drive a point, but in my opinion this article just missed the mark. I don’t know what this piece is supposed to be telling me about a culture of violence.
Doubledup
The culture of violence starts from the top, Demetria. Tell Obama to stop sending drones into countries dropping bombs on people Tell him to release Bradley Manning. Too bad you didn’t mention whether or not you asked those many football players who talked to about the culture of violence they make money off of playing their blood sport.
We can’t continue to be amazed at the level of violence at the local level when our country is at perpetual war with drugs, terror, and whatever it makes up to profit off of next week.
NinaGI was just having a conversation with someone about how interpersonal violence is framed differently from state violence. I think they are both reflective of the culture. And I think it serves a certain political agenda for the news to spend so much time focusing on violence in communities of color.
Doubledup
Very true. No one even raises a peep about state violence as if it just non-existent. It’s so far away and so centralized that most people distrust dissenting voices who say, “hey, lets talk about the culture of military violence and how it relates to how individuals justify their violent acts like the ones described by Demetria.”
me
Wow!
This is the conversation that needs to be had.
Wanted to say the same thing myself but couldn’t find the words to make a simple argument that would show the connection between state violence and interpersonal violence.
State violence is the root of all violence in any society that has coercive institutions.
Violence is how the hierachichal order is maintained. It’s deployed by those in the top tier of the hierarchy to impose discipline on all the tiers below.
Violence travels downwards, each tier of the hierarchy inflicts its violence on the tier below. It’s at the bottom of the hierarchy that you find the most aggressed against people and sadly the most peer to peer violence because the only people poor people can be violent with are themselves.
Please be more precise. Though DC might have been the murder capital at the time that you went to the Taj Mahal that one time, it is no longer nor is it among the top ten. While it is still an unsafe city, to say that it is ” D.C. is the Murder Capital, and the city lives up to its hype” as in, currently, is false and misleading, especially with no timeline as to when this event took place.
I’m all for personal accounts to drive a point, but in my opinion this article just missed the mark. I don’t know what this piece is supposed to be telling me about a culture of violence.
Doubledup
The culture of violence starts from the top, Demetria. Tell Obama to stop sending drones into countries dropping bombs on people Tell him to release Bradley Manning. Too bad you didn’t mention whether or not you asked those many football players who talked to about the culture of violence they make money off of playing their blood sport.
We can’t continue to be amazed at the level of violence at the local level when our country is at perpetual war with drugs, terror, and whatever it makes up to profit off of next week.
NinaGI was just having a conversation with someone about how interpersonal violence is framed differently from state violence. I think they are both reflective of the culture. And I think it serves a certain political agenda for the news to spend so much time focusing on violence in communities of color.
Doubledup
Very true. No one even raises a peep about state violence as if it just non-existent. It’s so far away and so centralized that most people distrust dissenting voices who say, “hey, lets talk about the culture of military violence and how it relates to how individuals justify their violent acts like the ones described by Demetria.”
me
Wow!
This is the conversation that needs to be had.
Wanted to say the same thing myself but couldn’t find the words to make a simple argument that would show the connection between state violence and interpersonal violence.
State violence is the root of all violence in any society that has coercive institutions.
Violence is how the hierachichal order is maintained. It’s deployed by those in the top tier of the hierarchy to impose discipline on all the tiers below.
Violence travels downwards, each tier of the hierarchy inflicts its violence on the tier below. It’s at the bottom of the hierarchy that you find the most aggressed against people and sadly the most peer to peer violence because the only people poor people can be violent with are themselves.