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This seems relevant:

 whembly wrote:
He's not. He's making an important distinction that I believe we've all lost.

Chongara was using satire to make the point that when people raise sensible issues of rehabilitation and the like, they are often shouted down with accusations of being soft on crime.

It's a real problem, and what makes it really hard to fix is that even when we agree with the reform and rehabilitation being argued for by one politician and see the accusations of being soft on crime as wrong or political sloganeering... it still hurts the guy who's accused of being soft on crime. Because of the way our brains are wired, we still associate that first politician with being 'weak'... even when we agreed with them on crime reform, so we end up thinking less of their other policies and of them in general, while like the guy shouting 'soft on crime' more. It's all about that alpha male, hard man willing to make hard choices bs.

Seriously, as a species our brains really do feth us over.