EXCLUSIVE: A remarkable thing happened when Amazon called the cops on several worker-organizers in Albany.After the lead organizer explained why they were unionizing, the two police officers decided not to kick them out.Instead, they offered to help coordinate future tabling. pic.twitter.com/mzOhZI4kOO— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) July 25, 2022
I feel like the propaganda is so strong that a lot of people (not just pigs) whose roles are to oppress the working class don't actually know that's what they're supposed to be doing.
Well the police came from being a force mainly to against slaves before, then against proletarianised black people. I am actually not that surprised, the police force of america is a racialised force and it's easy to for it to mistake its job protecting property vs working class people compared to just protecting white people vs black people.
In this case it also looks very much like cops being unionised and cops liking their union causes them to be sympathetic to anyone that wants to unionise which is funny as fuck.
Helps that unions aren't regarded as left/right in the US yet. If they were regarded as commie leftist antifa then they'd be behaving very differently.
The one cop saying he's thankful for his union really gets me. Everyone understands material conditions, even if they don't understand how it intersects with politics :marx-joker:
It's literally capitalist realism, where the brutality of capitalism has to be invisible and any discussion about it is considered taboo. Which means, any tools that capitalism uses to brutalize others are also considered taboo and off-limits. Essentially, you CANNOT acknowledge racism, because that breaks the illusion.
I see this all the time in my corpo job. White dudes are at the top of the hierarchy, and have zero clue about the privilege of their status. Literally like the fish to water analogy.
The ones who are semi-aware of their status and the benefits it provides usually continue to take advantage of it anyway.
I feel like the propaganda is so strong that a lot of people (not just pigs) whose roles are to oppress the working class don't actually know that's what they're supposed to be doing.
Well the police came from being a force mainly to against slaves before, then against proletarianised black people. I am actually not that surprised, the police force of america is a racialised force and it's easy to for it to mistake its job protecting property vs working class people compared to just protecting white people vs black people.
In this case it also looks very much like cops being unionised and cops liking their union causes them to be sympathetic to anyone that wants to unionise which is funny as fuck.
Helps that unions aren't regarded as left/right in the US yet. If they were regarded as commie leftist antifa then they'd be behaving very differently.
The one cop saying he's thankful for his union really gets me. Everyone understands material conditions, even if they don't understand how it intersects with politics :marx-joker:
It's literally capitalist realism, where the brutality of capitalism has to be invisible and any discussion about it is considered taboo. Which means, any tools that capitalism uses to brutalize others are also considered taboo and off-limits. Essentially, you CANNOT acknowledge racism, because that breaks the illusion.
I see this all the time in my corpo job. White dudes are at the top of the hierarchy, and have zero clue about the privilege of their status. Literally like the fish to water analogy.
The ones who are semi-aware of their status and the benefits it provides usually continue to take advantage of it anyway.