One of the more fascinating and horrible details in Reuters’ thoroughly fascinating and horrible long-form report
on Trump’s cruel border policies is this nugget: ICE hacked the
risk-assessment tool it used to decide whom to imprison so that it
recommended that everyone should be detained.
This gave ICE a kind of empirical facewash for its racist and inhumane
policies: they could claim that the computer forced them to imprison
people by identifying them as high-risk. The policy let ICE triple its
detention rate, imprisoning 43,000 people.
“Everyone is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.” – Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
— Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia (via philosophybits)
