What was even more distracting and confusing was that the job of punishing the expressions of patriarchy, racism, and poverty was assigned to the pol… - Sarah Schulman
" "What was even more distracting and confusing was that the job of punishing the expressions of patriarchy, racism, and poverty was assigned to the police, who also cause violence. This responsibility, in some cases, produced additional acts of violence on the part of the government, like “,” and that committed violence in the name of claiming to fight violence. These laws also produced more access for the state into the homes and families of the poor, and more incarceration of Black and other poor men. Instead of empowering women and the poor, the fate of the traumatized was increasingly in the hands of the power of the police acting as a group to represent oppressive systems.
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Sarah Miriam Schulman (born July 28, 1958) is an American novelist, playwright and lesbian rights activist.
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