Tamara Keel: They’re wrong and deserve to be called out, so good on you for it.

It should not be controversial to say that prison sexual violence and/or coercion is never a good thing or an appropriate thing to joke or threaten about, even when the target is someone terrible. It is a deeply fucked up, traumatic part of our carceral system.

This is, in fact, really fucked up

Steve Bannon prison video sparks fury: "Disgusting beyond words"www.newsweek.com The Lincoln Project's video mocks Bannon over the prospect of him being assaulted while serving his prison time.

It is not funny. It is not just. It is not an appropriate part of a carceral sentence. We should not view it as an inevitability and we should not speak of it as "deserved". It is one of the many shames of our carceral system and one of the reasons we need radical prison reform.

We rightly consider the concept of official judicial rape to be horrifying and barbaric, so it is just as heinous to wish for the unofficial variety.

And so many people think it's funny or think that wishing it on people is justified, sigh

They’re wrong and deserve to be called out, so good on you for it.

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