Fuck people who make generalisations
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Systems can be bad, and the people who support and work within bad systems are bad, even if they act nice outside of that system.
I disagree with the second part. That means everybody living in a first world country is inherently a bad person just by accident of their birth location. We're well past the point of choosing whether or not we participate in most systems, and at the end of the day, somebody needs to do the job of law enforcement.
People choose to be cops. Choosing which country you live in is a luxury most can't afford.
Ok then, so people who vote in US elections are inherently evil? - a more analogous example
People who consume bananas are inherently evil?
People that have smartphones are inherently evil?
Those things are all choices. How about another one? Lithium mining is a bad system that negatively impacts the environment. Therefore, people that buy electric cars are evil and bad for the environment, right?!?
I agree with the first part, not the second. All those black kids who end up in the military because of poverty are not all evil. But you're right about the system so work to change that rather than damning a whole class of people.
Not just the police and ICE but don't forget fuck USCIS, USBP, CBSA, etc.
Fuck the police and the 3-letter mafia
I explained to a police officer in my beer sharing circles during the George Floyd protests:
Damn near every kid in a high school cafeteria knows who the bad kids are and what tables they sit at. It's no different anywhere in the real world. Every cop at every precinct knows which cops are the bad ones.
Unlike a highschool cafeteria, you, as a police officer, have a civic, professional, and moral duty to do everything in your power to get those cops kicked the fuck out. And the idea that doing so might somehow harm your career? That's why "all cops are bastards." It's rotten from the top down. A few bad apples, in the case of police officers, spoils the whole bunch.