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ID: teen @COMMIEdaughter posted: “please do not use words like “policeman” or “policewoman.” Use gender neutral terms like “tools of the capitalist bourgeoisie and enemy of the people”.”
I'm old. I've always used "pig" instead.
That's an insult to pigs.
Pigs are useful. Cops aren't.
Came here to say the same thing. "Pig" is a good gender neutral term and has universal appeal.
I believe the current term is "class traitor"
Copis short and gets the message acrossCapitalist Oppressive Person?
just use the collective
police. that way it non-specific, which if i were police person, i'd really like <3"Police person" also implies that police are people...
Oh, they're definitely people, just class betraying, oppressive, abusive people, who dedicate their lives to work exclusively in service of even more oppressive and abusive people, in exchange for some power to trip on.
i kno, police bad. i jus don come from US so police here is not so bad at all. i really do feel safer when those peeps are around.
so dehumanizing, at least to me, seems unreasonable.
Police Entity. Pronoun "it".
They're people. Dehumanizing anyone is gross and wrong.
I couldn't give two fucks what a bastard would like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Until someone assaults you and you’re running like a bitch towards your nearest police station. We need to push for police reform, demeaning and treating them like enemies pre emptively will not help any of your causes, it only entrenches them further as tools of the state instead of protectors of the people (would you protect someone that hates you for no reason other than you are a part of the system, like everyone else?)
It isn't preemptive to see cops as our enemy, for they're already taught to view the public as an enemy. The reform we need isn't even what gets discussed by anybody who wants to "work" with police.
Public safety needs to be gutted and rebuilt from the ground up, with cops only handling situations where someone might need to die. There is no non-lethal violence. Any instance of cops using any form of violence carries the risk of someone dying. We shouldn't expect them to be anything but violence machines; a last resort to any issue, not part of a front line.
If their unions don't hate you, you're never gonna actually accomplish anything. It's not a good strategy to ally with people who get upset at being anti-cop. In the US, politicians who say "fuck the police" are better off than any respectability politician. We've heard nothing but meaningless platitudes for years, and people are tired of it. The "safe" politicians have provided no safety, and people are too scared to trust them any longer.
be nice to the class traitors, they might betray us less
Be nice to people, that’s all.
But I don’t see what’s productive about demonizing the police when we both know that the first thing you’ll do when someone breaks into your house or whoops your butt is call the police. Or do you think you can bring justice to perpetrators in your own terms with your own hands?
Youre right, the police do have a monopoly on violence and will kidnap you for meeting violence with violence, as they can't have their monopoly or their authority questioned. Although, I don't consider that a good thing, myself.
The role of the police has and will always be to protect the assets of the rich. Everything else they do is a side hustle to justify their authority. Please dont get me wrong, some of those side hustles are very important but that's not what they're for. Nearly every modern police force is built on either or a combination of the British police officer or the American. One started as a private security force to protect wealthy peoples assets from starving people during the bread riots and the other was founded by slave catchers.
Every single police force started out that way and i just don't think you can build from or reform-away that kind of foundation.
We need to push for police reform,
Police reform would inevitably mean replacing a significant fraction of the police, because most police officers aren't qualified to do their supposed jobs.
Yes I agree.
But the notion that no police at all is a good idea is absolutely ridiculous. I can empathize if you live in a place where the police force is fully corrupt but this is systemic, it’s the same thing that causes poor communities to have more crime. Now I could start saying that poor people are criminals and I would be flayed alive (rightfully so), but it is the exact same thing as saying that all cops are criminals or abusers. Some of them are, many of them maybe, and in some places most of them but that in itself is not a problem inherent of the concept of having someone to protect the peace and make sure that rules are followed.
It betrays a real lack of critical thought imo.
Until there is even a mere noticeable minority of cops in a coalition to support and implement reforms, they are all my enemy. If the problem is systemic, which it is, then everyone who willingly stays in the system without trying to change it is an enabler at best.