A Boring Dystopia

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submitted 1 year ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

The NYPD is skulking through the L train demanding IDs from Black and Latino men, again with zero justified cause or explanation as to why.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

~~extraordinarily renditioned~~

Way too sanitized of a term, when what it really means is 'kidnapped'.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Kidnapping doesn't necessarily involve torture.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

All the more reason not to use the state's sanitized language around torture and kidnapping.

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