From Escaping Tomorrow’s Cages. This article is the fourth in a series about prison expansion in Ontario that starts here.
TOTW: Recuperation and Social Signaling
Been reading and listening to people (notably Naomi Klein in Doppleganger but some youtubers as well) talk about how there is a growing tendency for valuable words and concepts to be coopted by our enemies or at least our non-friends. Fake news, The Other/othering, woke, and mutual aid are just a few of the ideas that have been (or are being) made into signifiers for people who we strongly disagree with.
Two part question then: