She attempted to bring up how the officers turning on Derek Chauvin shows that theres some good officers and I was having none of it. She's an extremely lib journalist and It was like talking with a wall. My boomer dad also backed her up. When I brought up how often police are abusers and such she said that the presidency is also corrupt and so is congress. Should they be torn down? I said yes and she said well that doesn't lead to a stable world when china and russia wanna swoop in and put gulags here. I was at this point so annoyed I just told her to look up imperialism, how capitalism exploits the global south, and how the united states has not enabled stability for any country that's not an ally of the united states' ruling class. Anyone have any tips on how I could have maybe radicalized her? I'm grasping at straws at this point and my family will probably make me out to be the villain.
She kept saying it showed that the blue line was cracking. When I said that its only because the camera was on the case more than most others and that it was entirely to placate people calling for defunding and abolishing the police, she said it didnt matter. "As long as they do the right thing, who cares if it's for the wrong reasons" - my sister. :angery:
but they did the wrong thing for the wrong reasons and have convinced themselves they're at war with the people they work for
This is a real "A moment doesn't make a movement" moment.
She knows that the people who "cracked" were low level nobodies right? If it were a police union or an entire cadre of high ranking police officials, maybe it would be a sign of things changing. As it is, two low level nobodies aren't a sign of systemic change.