Matt Rosenberg joined the Shaun Thompson Show this week to talk about his latest article: Mass incarceration: a weaponized myth. Matt told Shaun we need to challenge the claim that there is a racial disparity in incarceration. That there are no quotas in outcomes and we should be looking at individuals and the decision that people make, not judging based on color.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Mass incarceration: a weaponized myth
- Lawmakers vote to subsidize Illinois’ border communities. It’s a failed strategy.
- The Latest, Brazen Whoppers From Gov. J.B. Pritzker And His Party
- As the folly of Illinois’ new energy law becomes evident, a ray of hope breaks through
- What Illinois incompetence looks like: the state’s unemployment insurance fiasco
- 2021 Census numbers are horrible for Illinois: Population decline second worst in country, behind only New York
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
So the “hard left”, which has taken over many of the big time colleges, the legacy media, and is a significant wing of the Democratic Party, is just as racist and bereft on morality as the “far right” goons they’ve been disparaging all these years. They both exaggerate and flat out lie. Shaun is absolutely right about the Democrat mafia, and Republicans go along so they can get a cut. It’s the poor who the Democrats purport to “care about” so much who suffer. They pay the greatest share of their income in taxes and fees to the government, they… Read more »
Bravo, Shaun, for having Matt on. At root, Matt loves Chicago. And I know watching it flail around so ineffectively hurts his soul. Be sure to pick up Matt’s amazing book, “What next, Chicago.”