Nate Holdren in The Little Village:
People of conscience must not let ourselves be pulled into line-drawing between acceptable and unacceptable instances of this violence committed by the government. The historical record is very clear that justice movements lose when they let themselves be sidetracked into litigating when forms of state violence are acceptable vs. unacceptable, often in an effort to seem reasonable so as to be palatable to the rich, powerful, and officially respectable.
This letter is about ICE and immigration and deportation but also slavery and war and civil rights and capital punishment and torture and other forms of state violence.
Don’t stop there. It’s also about why people of conscience must work to end policing full stop.