To those outraged by this—and... everyone apparently is—two questions:
1. What does accountability entail here? Are you mad that sensitivity classes were inadequate, or are you upset at the lack of retributive vengeance?
Don’t say “this is bad.” Clarify “what is right.”
1. What does accountability entail here? Are you mad that sensitivity classes were inadequate, or are you upset at the lack of retributive vengeance?
Don’t say “this is bad.” Clarify “what is right.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1361700960159100934
So much of the “white ppl get this while Black ppl get that” outrage never specifies what the right outcome should be... which means we default to the usual mindless punitiveness for all.
If you are (1) unhappy but (2) want change, need to give a positive account of that future.
If you are (1) unhappy but (2) want change, need to give a positive account of that future.
Second, to those saying “harshness to the Coopers is the path to leniency for all,” two questions:
1. That runs head-long into the one-way Willie Horton ratchet. Never easy to go back down. What would make this case different?
1. That runs head-long into the one-way Willie Horton ratchet. Never easy to go back down. What would make this case different?
And (2) (of q 2–sorry for the subparts), what are the micro politics here?
Doesn’t this make it easier for a defender with a Black client to say Vance (or whoever is next) “you did this for the white woman, but not here? Why??”
What leverage wld severity vs Cooper provide?
Doesn’t this make it easier for a defender with a Black client to say Vance (or whoever is next) “you did this for the white woman, but not here? Why??”
What leverage wld severity vs Cooper provide?
But I think the biggest point is this: if you find her treatment inadequate, we should direct our ire at the lack of alternatives and our blinkered public view of what “accountability” is, not just resign ourselves to the usual.
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