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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 18 hours ago

Everyone I'm close to knows about the prison industrial complex because we talk to each other.

Maybe we live in different neighborhoods. Most of my neighbors are fine with locking "those people" up, and don't much care what happens to them beyond that.

"approach the world with intent to confirm this bias"

How do you account for the vast majority of eligible voters either not showing up or voting for Trump? That's about as unbiased a measure as I can think of.

Not being part of the problem takes work,

So we're on the same page there.

wisdom is in knowing people are highly situational, neither inherently good or bad

If it takes work to not be part of the problem than aren't people inherently "bad" until they do the work? I didn't introduce that dialectic to this conversation. Of course throwing everyone into two buckets is inherently going to miss a lot of depth.

often entirely unequipped for the world we've created or the heights we've grasped.

I'm not sure it was ever any different.