When I was in first grade we watched a video about crime statistics where they said "there's 30 of you in this class, so 5 of you aren't going to finish high school, 2 of you are going to die of a drug overdose, and when you're adults, we'll arrest 3 of you" and shit like that. I remember thinking "you can't arrest my classmates, they're my friends and they're not bad guys" and a tiny little ACAB seed was planted that day
Pretty much. I can't remember having a good experience interacting with cops. Ever. I felt like when they would come to scare us with tough love, it was just an excuse to ID the younger siblings of guys they already had on their radar.
Sort of weird that my brother is a cop-loving fuckface. We had a very similar upbringing, but he rubs one out to Fox and OANN daily.
Family is weird like that. My sister helped push me back leftward when I was going through my stemlord phase and she's a huge lib now even though her area of work and study is the feedback cycle of climate change and extractive capitalism. Not as bad as an OANN chud but extremely disheartening all the same
Goes to show how any decent person who tries to become a cop to help people is quickly drummed out of the job. Either you participate in something like that, realize that the problems with it are impossible for you to solve as one individual working within, and quit, or you start the process of accepting the way things are.
In the shittier schools I went to, the cops starting around 5th grade would basically say, "soon we'll be arresting some of you."
When I was in first grade we watched a video about crime statistics where they said "there's 30 of you in this class, so 5 of you aren't going to finish high school, 2 of you are going to die of a drug overdose, and when you're adults, we'll arrest 3 of you" and shit like that. I remember thinking "you can't arrest my classmates, they're my friends and they're not bad guys" and a tiny little ACAB seed was planted that day
Pretty much. I can't remember having a good experience interacting with cops. Ever. I felt like when they would come to scare us with tough love, it was just an excuse to ID the younger siblings of guys they already had on their radar.
Sort of weird that my brother is a cop-loving fuckface. We had a very similar upbringing, but he rubs one out to Fox and OANN daily.
Family is weird like that. My sister helped push me back leftward when I was going through my stemlord phase and she's a huge lib now even though her area of work and study is the feedback cycle of climate change and extractive capitalism. Not as bad as an OANN chud but extremely disheartening all the same
I was also radicalized by a lib, lol. It turns out if you follow feminist theory to its conclusions...
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Goes to show how any decent person who tries to become a cop to help people is quickly drummed out of the job. Either you participate in something like that, realize that the problems with it are impossible for you to solve as one individual working within, and quit, or you start the process of accepting the way things are.
What the fuck why would you say that to literal children. But I guess the cruelty is the point :marx-angry: