The talk was a panel discussion entitled ‘The Transformation of Poverty Governance’ and revolved around how America is handling it’s welfare state.
According to The University of Pennsylvania Professor Philippe Bourgois:
- Conservatives “brutalize the poor” and are “mean-spirited schmucks”
- Police are “rough, mean, vicious, nasty and piggish”
- Police will make up charges to incarcerate you
- Karl Marx is “useful” and we need to revisit his concepts
- The prison system in America is “an unjustifiable outrage”
- America is a “perverse place, not the Land of the Free”
- Doctors “make tons of money” off the poor