Double Standards

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So close to being self aware. What happens when you reverse the roles with the same logic then? Judging a police force for their most violent cops but not judging a demonstration for their most violent participants is what? Are you suddenly a 'freedom fighter' because you believe your cause is just? History proves the worst people always think their path forward is the righteous one. I really wish we'd stop getting distracted by this shit and fight against the real oppressors of us all: The wealthy.

The counter to hypocrisy is not more hypocrisy. It's no hypocrisy

I'm 14 and that's deep. Way to sidestep the actual point.

The counter to hypocrisy is to be principled, yet that sign seems to accuse people of the exact thing it represents. I'll ask again, if your enemies are oppressors, does that make you a self-claimed freedom fighter? Rebel? Or something less flattering - Terrorist.

Cops are tools of the wealthy to oppress us.

So when a man hits you over the head, you go after the hammer?

yeah grabbing the hammer is a remarkably wise plan as far as self defense in this hypothetical

Wonderful, then you'd agree we should get rid of all hammers then too right? Clearly it's the fault of the tool, not the one wielding it.

Yeah it's hard to stay consistent when warped logic is applied to different scenarios. I'll spell it out for you, Mr. White.

If a murderer uses a hammer to murder, you don't ban hammers, you go after the murderer. So then why when the wealthy use the police as a tool, you try to ban police, instead of going after the wealthy?

breh you asked what we do if a man hits me on the head with a hammer

my genuine immediate reaction would be to wrestle the hammer out of control of the man

but for some reason you think that my first reaction, being in imminent danger of immediate injury and death, is to start canvassing the neighborhood? gathering signatures to ban hammers from the local Lowes or something? meanwhile the guy with the hammer still has his hammer and is beating the shit out of me. i actually would not do that.

i’m being quite consistent where you are being quite silly 😛

edit: also no one said “instead” but you. pardon me for not taking this seriously i just don’t care (about your messed up hypothetical; i care deeply about institutional violence)

I'm not asking for your emotional or instinctive response to the situation, I'm asking you who you hold accountable. Your response seems to hold a tool (hammer/cop) instead of the thing that used it to hurt you(criminal/wealthy).

Yes, you don't care, I get it. You can't engage with serious shit so why the fuck are you responding? There will always be another tool, always be another way to hurt people, stop fucking focusing on the tool and go after the person using it. So exhausting trying to teach morons unwilling to learn.

oh ok well when you put it that way :)

cops aren’t hammers they are people. the wealthy aren’t hammers either they are people.

so both. i’d hold both accountable.

Again, cops are just doing their job. You want to change what their job is, you need to go after the people giving them that job. You aren't going to topple a critical pillar of society, law enforcement, because you think it's corrupt.

For the last time, eat the rich, stop getting distracted.

stop getting distracted

as though we are only capable of calling for one reform at once. infantilizing & blocked for being so unserious.

God you're so right. We should divide our attention so nothing gets done instead of focusing it on the most pressing issue. You're a fucking idiot, goodbye.