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.
The Lincoln Project isn't nearly as smart as they think they are. One of their stunts in Virginia backfired and ended up helping Youngkin over McAuliffe.
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.
People in this country are well trained to feel that anyone in prison deserves the worst despite the obvious systemic problems and inhumane conditions. It makes one wonder what horrors would be tolerated so long as you tell everyone the person is bad. History has harsh lessons falling on deaf ears.
I have had the job of reviewing jail sexual violence allegations. They are stomach turning to read and the common thread is that guards were aware and did nothing to stop it. The Lincoln Project should apologize and retract this video. Carceral sexual violence is an extension of state violence.
Rick Wilson is and always has been a complete fucking asshole. He made his money making this kind of gross shit for the right and now that it enabled what it always was going to he’s making money off of making them for the left.