We talk about what people deserve all the time, that's what the whole thing is. If we take the accepted idea on here that the United States commits genocide in the global south and Nazi soldiers deserved the pit for their part in the genocide, what is the differentiating factor between a Nazi who signed up for the Wehrmacht and an American who signed up for the army?
Believe it or not, I know what social context is. I don't really make the comments you allude to, but I shrug at them because the people making them are not asserting serious arguments for the direction of a socialist movement, they are expressing an emotional reaction. If they are viciously reactionary (particularly if they are anti-democratic) I do push back and encourage you to as well, but we should not mistake picking our battles for endorsing things that aren't worth attacking.
The point of the article is that these things are worth attacking because the only difference between cops and military is the physical location of where they commit oppression. Attacking these institutions is crucial to saving the lives of oppressed people at home and in the global south
We talk about what people deserve all the time, that's what the whole
thing is. If we take the accepted idea on here that the United States commits genocide in the global south and Nazi soldiers deserved the pit for their part in the genocide, what is the differentiating factor between a Nazi who signed up for the Wehrmacht and an American who signed up for the army?
Believe it or not, I know what social context is. I don't really make the comments you allude to, but I shrug at them because the people making them are not asserting serious arguments for the direction of a socialist movement, they are expressing an emotional reaction. If they are viciously reactionary (particularly if they are anti-democratic) I do push back and encourage you to as well, but we should not mistake picking our battles for endorsing things that aren't worth attacking.
The point of the article is that these things are worth attacking because the only difference between cops and military is the physical location of where they commit oppression. Attacking these institutions is crucial to saving the lives of oppressed people at home and in the global south
I agree that troops are a type of cop (albeit the training is much different). My stance on cops is the same.
There's one other difference, which is that in some cases you can make them fight each other, and that's pretty neat.