Alec Karakatsanis, author of the Copaganda book in a brief talk (from here)
Here's an excerpt from the text in which the video was embedded:
"As I suggest in the video, our civil rights work is about many things, including getting as many people as we can out of cages. But the work we do in courts and jails across the U.S. is also about something else: it’s about ensuring that, no matter what kinds of grotesque stuff starts to become normalized in a society that imprisons Black people 6 times the rate of South Africa at the height of Apartheid and all people 5-10 times other comparable countries, there are always people prepared to say “2+2=4.” The moment people stop saying this, everything is lost.
"One reason various institutions are crumbling and the people in charge of them so unpopular is that the material reality they defend is so different from their own professed values. They claim to value the “rule of law” but only enforce some laws against some people some of the time. They claim to value “public safety” but pursue policies that make most people less safe. They claim to value liberty but jail hundreds of thousands of society’s poorest people solely because they lack access to cash. They claim to value equality but ensure a small number of people control nearly every major decision. They claim to value evidence but pursue policies that defy evidence. They claim to value health but let us all be regularly poisoned and then destroy the opportunity for most people to get quality health care. They claim to value merit but ensure that fealty to power is what gets rewarded in elite institutions. As a result, establishment politicians, university presidents, and pundits are constantly speaking gibberish instead of being real with people.""
"One reason various institutions are crumbling and the people in charge of them so unpopular is that the material reality they defend is so different from their own professed values. They claim to value the “rule of law” but only enforce some laws against some people some of the time. They claim to value “public safety” but pursue policies that make most people less safe. They claim to value liberty but jail hundreds of thousands of society’s poorest people solely because they lack access to cash. They claim to value equality but ensure a small number of people control nearly every major decision. They claim to value evidence but pursue policies that defy evidence. They claim to value health but let us all be regularly poisoned and then destroy the opportunity for most people to get quality health care. They claim to value merit but ensure that fealty to power is what gets rewarded in elite institutions. As a result, establishment politicians, university presidents, and pundits are constantly speaking gibberish instead of being real with people.""
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