The biggest threat to abolition of the #StalkerState is reform movements who will settle for a kinder, gentler warden/stalker. Most legislative solutions fall into this trap which normalizes surveillance. We should never let the violence of surveillance become normal.
- A Puerto Rican entering a US border
- A black person during the great migrations
- Natives far from their ancesteral land
If police can't be trusted to respect the integrity of darker bodies, how can they be trusted to respect something as amorphous as data?
- Transphobia
- Jim Crow/lynching
- Current policing (the culture of snitching/"see something, say something"/the criminal other)