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  • They’d Rather Have You a Criminal Than Original

    A citizen with a criminal register is a citizen under state direction. A citizen who is a white crow is not. The distinction is not moral. It is administrative. The criminal has been placed. The white crow has not. And the state—any state, every state—prefers the placed to the unplaceable, because the placed can be…

  • The White Crow: Why Every Society Needs an Exception to Punish

    Every community has a list. The list is not written down. It does not need to be. It is the mental inventory of the people who are not quite like the others—the ones whose traits are noted, tolerated, and filed away for the day the community needs someone to destroy. The person on that list…