I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.
The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.
That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn’t know why I felt that way.
Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.
Anyway, that’s just one from me. What about the rest of you?
no idea if this is the wildest but i had a lit teacher in high school who was a young liberal white lady, and who repeatedly told students that she had taught a student at a different school named Le-a, pronounced “Ledasha”. I think she really convinced herself it had actually happened to her or something. There were black students in the class and we were assigned black authors and somehow she just never consciously realized she was repeating a racist fable, including the “the dash don’t be silent” part?
