One of my best friends from college married a cop. He wasn't a cop at the time, he worked retail, but he became a cop shortly after they got married after taking a two year criminal justice program at a tech. I would generally consider him to be a 'good guy' and he clearly understands the contradictions st the heart of the system, but with a kid now he doesn't have the money to make another career pivot out. And he would like to, because he has been shuffled from department to department, mostly because of his refusal to pump his arrest metrics. But he still understands ACAB.
It's not 'bootlicking' to point out there are alot of varied dispositions within the police force. It is bootlicking to use that fact to obfuscate the point that it is the very system itself that needs dismantling and overhaul, and any good actor within the system recognizes that. The fact that Matt is going onto Twitter to make that specific point means that he doesn't get the discourse and he is bootlicking, if in a smug, technically correct way.
The correct position for residential schools in Canada wasn't to become "one of the good teachers" - it was abolition.
The correct position for slavery wasn't to become a good slave holder- it was plain abolition.
I did hear a few white classmates talk about how if they were "back in those days" (the last residential school closed in the 90s) they'd have signed up to work as a residential school teacher and push the institution from the inside.
One of my best friends from college married a cop. He wasn't a cop at the time, he worked retail, but he became a cop shortly after they got married after taking a two year criminal justice program at a tech. I would generally consider him to be a 'good guy' and he clearly understands the contradictions st the heart of the system, but with a kid now he doesn't have the money to make another career pivot out. And he would like to, because he has been shuffled from department to department, mostly because of his refusal to pump his arrest metrics. But he still understands ACAB.
It's not 'bootlicking' to point out there are alot of varied dispositions within the police force. It is bootlicking to use that fact to obfuscate the point that it is the very system itself that needs dismantling and overhaul, and any good actor within the system recognizes that. The fact that Matt is going onto Twitter to make that specific point means that he doesn't get the discourse and he is bootlicking, if in a smug, technically correct way.
The correct position for residential schools in Canada wasn't to become "one of the good teachers" - it was abolition.
The correct position for slavery wasn't to become a good slave holder- it was plain abolition.
I did hear a few white classmates talk about how if they were "back in those days" (the last residential school closed in the 90s) they'd have signed up to work as a residential school teacher and push the institution from the inside.
Pushing the death camps to the left from the inside :maybe-later-kiddo: don't forget to vote for Strasser in the midterms for harm reduction