• Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
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    The “good” cops stand up for the same system that shelters, protects, and encourages the bad cops. There’s no nuance. It is what it is. Therefore ACAB.

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      Right, the nuance is that there are bad cops and worse cops. It’s not a system that’s capable of change from the inside, and will actively fight anyone who tries until they give up, get shuttled away to a place that doesn’t matter with no hope of promotion, or even end up dead.

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      So when I pull on a gun on you and take your money, your car, you will definitely not call those goddamn bastards, right? You swear?

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        Always one of these removeds projecting their cowardice. Don’t worry I won’t punk you for your shit today little man…

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            You’re not talking to serious people, their anticop mentality stems from.sensoble thoughts like "corrupt cops are bad’ and ‘the system is often unfair’ but spirals into a dogmatic hero fantasy where they get to kill people they dislike and win every gunfight just like the movies of the old west.

            Of course those stories of noble outlaws doing right by the people are fantasy and the reality is a mass of cruelty, rape, theft, murder and violence. They have this idea that they’ll be the tough guy with a gun who can live life however they please because they don’t have compassion for other humans, not the old, sick, weak, and certainly not women, children, or those the work hard to live a good life.

            They think that you’re weak for wanting an official body who’s job it is to enforce the rules of society because they love to imagine themselves as an untouchable hero that doesn’t need rules, also they love the idea of people needing them for safety - a woman being able to live somewhat safely through a system of laws and justice upsets them because they’d love to be the strong man with a gun that women have to keep happy and near if they want protection.

            Every anarchist autonomous no cops zone instantly gets a gang that act like cops without any of the hard fought and long studied protections for the people - and bigger areas where law governments collapse get lots of these gangs who all fight each other… thousands of years of shitty history lead to the development of established and regulated police forces - yes they’re far from perfect but we need to work on improving them, adding oversight and better training, new systems and organizational structures.

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        Why would I call the cops? To report that I killed someone that tried to rob me? Naw man, I know plenty of places to dump a body where it’s not gonna be found for years, if ever. Welcome to Appalachia.

        Oh, you think that people that think ACAB aren’t armed…?

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          There is nothing inherently immoral about being a police officer though (as opposed to being a Nazi). Everyone but anarchists understands the need for police officers/“Violence of the state” in some capacity.

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            If you have 1000 ‘good’ cops and 10 bad cops, and the good cops don’t stop the bad cops from being cops, you have 1010 bad cops

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              Replace cops with “doctors” or “engineers” or literally anything- why do people only make this argument with cops?

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                If doctors and engineers had years long history of killing and oppressing certain racial groups, people would be up in arms about them too.

                But they’re not. And when there is a bad doctor or engineer they generally go to jail.

                Cops though? They get paid leave and transferred to a new department.

                So, 1312

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                  You keep changing the goalposts on me. First of all, doctors DO have a long history of racism. Just look up racism in medicine, there are plenty of examples, including teaching for a long time in medical textbooks that black people don’t feel pain as acutely as white people. Then there’s also the whole euthanasia thing. In my home state of North Carolina, for decades doctors involuntarily sterilized black (usually homeless) patients. There was a big settlement a few years back.

                  To this day, black women are way more likely to die in childbirth. The reasons for for that are complicated but it has been suggested that racism is a factor (not taking the complaints and concerns of the women seriously).

                  I think the medical field has largely cleaned up their act, but they didn’t get there by being told that All Doctors are Bastards. They got there by the long, slow, unsexy process of reform.

                  I am all for police reform. But saying “all cops are bastards” is no more truthful than saying “all doctors are bastards” a century ago.

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                    Also, don’t say I’m changing the goal posts by talking about doctors when you were literally the one to bring up doctors first haha

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                    Lastly, I’ve got familiy members that are police officers with one being a captain and another that’s a doctor.

                    Take a wild guess which group I like to hang out with when there with friends.

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                    ADWB a centery ago. You’re right. All Doctors Were Bastards just like 50 years ago. My uncle when he was born he had to go through a major surgery without anesthesia because children don’t feel pain.

                    I specifically brought them up because of how bad they used to be. But like, literally everyone used to be racist so like everyone was bastards back then. Cops just still continue to do it openly.

                    Yes, there’s going to be bad people in every field. Yes, unfortunately today there will be an evil doctor here and there. That’s always going to happen.

                    But you said it yourself. The doctors already went through thier reform so we don’t have to hate all of them. They get punished and their license taken away if caught. If that started happening tomorrow with the police I would stop saying ACAB. But you admit yourself it’s not like that.

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          If your society is regulated by Nazis, i blame the entire country and all its citizens.

          the collective would have embraced facism and murderous eugenics as guiding principles.

          So it is the fault of the citizens, because they created, nurtured, and tolerated an environment to sustain the Nazis.

          So all citizens are bad.

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            I mean yeah people who usually back the blue are usually pieces of shit.

            And I say this as someone who’s mother was a police officer.

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        A pig with lipstick is still a fuckin pig

        Edit: and honestly, they get a metric fuckton of help from non-profits and the like. Stop romanticizing law enforcement

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        Do you genuinely think anyone is claiming bad entities never do good things?