5/11/2023 0 Comments The divide by matt taibbi![]() ![]() ![]() He also shows how one misstep can have lifelong implications, especially if you fall into a certain racial group. In doing so, he shows how pervasive the justice system is-from policies relating to immigration, stop and frisk, and the prison industrial complex. In his reporting for the book, Taibbi follows a number of people as they make their way through the legal system. ![]() The book reads well because it intertwines individual stories which illustrate how the system works as a whole. ![]() He writes, “The rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.” And this is a fact society has come to accept-some people just have more rights than others. Yet that’s what the legal system in the U.S. Taibbi’s argument is that one of these worlds can exist, but both should not exist simultaneously. The sections of Matt Taibbi’s latest book, The Divide, vacillate between two different worlds: the first is one of impunity, where crimes take place on a massive scale and no one is held responsible the other realm is inhabited with minor crimes, or in some cases, no crime at all, yet people are investigated, abused or prosecuted under the fullest extent of the law (and sometimes beyond the law). In journalist Matt Taibbi’s latest book, The Divide, readers are lead through a justice system which is full of injustices. ![]()
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