• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      Yeah sure. Unless you’re in a cult, you know not everything is b&w.

      I know that’s probably tongue in cheek but I wouldn’t be surprised if some people take acab literally.

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        A good cop that watches bad cops break the law and doesn’t do anything is not a good cop. The ones that do say something are driven out of the force.

        This is why people say there are no good cops.

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        I’m living in a world that by default assumes all military and police are good. I’ve slowly over time seen enough to migrate to the other side. Fuck them all. And especially fuck the cult-like worship of military, and to a lesser extent, all policing.

        The grey area you’re referencing also leads to bipartisan demands. Look where that gets us with extremists? No thanks.

        Statistically speaking, any cop I see or encounter is likely some kind of piece of shit, abusing their spouses, or their kids, or other people’s kids, or generally being bigoted in their job and likely seeking excuses to overly apply authority put of their subconscious need to control others and feel important, or just enabling other cops to be assholes. Fuck em all.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if some people take acab literally.

        A ton of people do. Like it’s a common viewpoint. Especially on platforms like this.

        People love to ignore shades of gray.

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          I don’t know it was used in the George Floyd protest because of how most cops are being complicit by not speaking out against rotten colleagues but I think those movements recognize that it’s meant as an anti-establishment slur.

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          Or just go full “one person was a bad person. Therefore all of this group are bad” Then later “not all imigrants are bad just because one did a bad thing!”

          The double standard is so funny and sad to me

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            One of those groups is a marginalized group with no power, and the other is literally the embodiment of state violence.

            Police *should" be held to a different standard than immigrants or literally any other civilian.

            The double standard is so funny and sad to me

            Agreed, but for entirely opposite reasons.