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No surprise that Darren Walker & the Ford Foundation support building 8-12 new jails in NYC. Walker was a member of the commission that drafted the plan. His new In Defense of Nuance is a not very nuanced attack on #NoNewJails organizers opposing NYC’s jail construction plans 1/
Walker laments extremism, enemy of nuance & complexity. Rather than building consensus “based on mutual understanding or shared respect”, extremists, he argues, vilify those not in alignment with their ideologically pure position. The “perfect” becomes the “enemy of progress.” 2/
Is Walker modeling or mocking how to build “bridges and relationships based on mutual understanding or shared respect” by comparing #NoNewJails organizers to the climate change denial movement? 3/
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