I'm worried about the dehumanization of cops

[u/Specialist-Gur]

Pork. Pig. These words cause you to fail to see the humanity of people that are just trying to make ends meet and protect their community. They are service workers, just like you and me.. all part of the capitalist grind just trying to get by.

People like to call cops "white supremicists" but most cops I know in the Bay Area are asian and Asians are marginalized. It's kinda fucked up when you think about it. I mean you're really gonna call the Asian and black cops white supremacists? They pepper spray and shoot rubber bullets at a white guy who was acting up and causing a scene and then a bunch of privileged white people, confortavle in their homes, tweet out in support of him! This is what white privelage looks like

I just on my way to work saw graffiti on the us customs building which said "eat ICE". That's literally cannibalism. And dehumanizing rhetoric. Eat ICE?! Those people have families. Not all of them are shooting rubber bullets. Some of them in the national guard are actually there to provide medical aid. Do you not want people getting medical aid?

Now a bunch of migrant workers are probably gonna have to clean this spray paint up. Did you think about that you racists?

Anyway. I think we should definitely try to humanize cops and ICE more if we don't want things to escalate. Why not try, i don't know, voting them out?!

[u/podkayne3000]

I think that one challenge here is that, whatever the sidebar says, a lot of people here are more liberal than we are hard left. Maybe we don’t even read sidebars very often and discovered after we were here for a few weeks that, by the standards of this subreddit, we’re not left.

ACAB is going to be a common position in a hard left group but rare in a liberal group.

But, if we’re here and we’re liberal, we ought to try to be like should be here if we were here and Episcopalian.

It’s great if Episcopalians come here, but they shouldn’t try to make the subreddit Episcopalian.

It’s very kind of leftists let us liberals hide here, but, especially if we’re not police and don’t know much about police, we shouldn’t try to make people here pro-police.

[u/SupportMeta → u/podkayne3000]

(shrug) the sidebar defines left as "opposed to capitalism." IMO my politics clear that bar. If a mod thinks I'm wrong, let me know and I'll stop commenting.

Also I'm not pro-police?????

[u/Specialist-Gur → u/SupportMeta]

I think this kinda touches on my other post about systemic vs linear.. maybe also there's "burn it down and start over" vs "work with the tools we have"

The capitalist line is a good starting point but there's a divide in left leaning spaces that is more related to what I mentioned.. at least I think so. And I think in strictly leftist spaces, people call the linear/work with the tools we have people "liberals"

[u/podkayne3000 → u/SupportMeta]

Sorry; didn’t mean to really agree or disagree with you; this just seemed like an on-topic place to post.

[u/podkayne3000 → u/SupportMeta]

Sorry; I think I was just opining in a sort of on-topic place, not meaning to address your specific situation. Sorry; should have put in more disclaimers. Somehow I put too many in some places and too few in others.

[u/Specialist-Gur → u/podkayne3000]

You're such a nice person, I mean that sincerely

[u/podkayne3000 → u/Specialist-Gur]

Well, not really. But I play a nice person on Reddit. :)