• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    Some of this country is very white. Do you think the cops police them differently? That they treat poor white people with respect?

    No, and they never have. They prey on the poor and most vulnerable. If there’s a wealthy non-white community, they will always “get a pass”.

    A perfect example of this in action is the homeless. How do the cops treat the homeless? Are they kind and merciful to the white ones?

    Are they racist? Many of them are, of course (and sexist, etc).

    But they ALL prey on the impoverished by design.

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      ICE is an American institution, so the pronouns are used appropriately.

      Otherwise, they’d have to replace the pronoun “their” with “Immigration and Customs Enforcement”, or ICE again in the same sentence, and so on.

      Pronouns are used as a substitute for the subject so that you don’t have to use the same exact term repeatedly in conversation.

      The pronouns following the subject all pertain to the subject until the subject is changed.

      This is ENGLISH!

        • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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          People make mistakes with pronouns constantly, as pronouns are not “exact” and are themselves placeholders, an approximation for the subject to avoid nearly constant repetition.

          Once you start correcting the pronouns of others, you make conversations about anything else virtually impossible. It’s the destroyer of many threads, done purposefully or not.

          As they say in linguistics, just go with it; only then will you get to THE SUBJECT itself

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    ah I see the agents of fight among yourselves and let the facist olgiarchs get away with it are still strong and active.

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        The hands slowly travel forward, traced the spongy arms, past the Punisher patch Agent Ross bought in bulk, with a playful but commanding tickle he feels even through his heavy Minnesota-winter coat.

        But it wasn’t the weather that makes Agent Ross shiver as the instructor, his ample belly pressing close against his back, whispers in his ear, “Looks like you missed our little bundle of joy there, agent. Now how do you think Kristi would feel about that?”

        “N… Not too good,” Agent Ross stammers, the closeness he had been imagining for weeks clouding his brain.

        “That’s right, worm - and here they told me your IQ made you a walking vegetable, you just keep right on surprising me,” the instructor breathes. “Well don’t get cocky now, Daddy still needs his martial law. And how do you think we get there, agent? What’s going to get those libs rioting in the street?”

        The feeling of the instructor’s domination is exactly like his fantasy. Yes! This is why he joined ICE. He realizes he hasn’t felt this happy since he found his wife in bed with his best friend.

        “L… Leave no survivors, sir?” Agent Ross knows he should have sounded more confident, but it takes everything just to get the words out.

        “That’s right, agent. Now let papa help you,” the instructor coos as his hands cover Agent Ross’s and their dappled cheeks press together to line up the sights. Together their uncalloused, pudgy fingertips barely squeeze under the trigger guard, and they fire a single shot through the target baby’s head. “Now there’s our hero. See, that wasn’t so hard. One less NPC. Don’t forget to flee the scene, those animals can get rowdy after. Now let’s see if that flapping meat hole of yours can take as good as it gi-”

        … Is basically how imagine their training went.

  • recursive_recursion@piefed.ca
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    No shade against the artist but I feel that this caricature would’ve best met their desired messaging had they chose to depict people of color next to white people also being targeted.

    Cause at the end of the day, all Americans are suffering at the hands of Trump and the republican cronies.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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    Are they going to give the surviving baby to the orangest Paedo Of The United States?

    Everyone -decent- knows he likes them young…

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    […] white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country

    What ICE is doing has nothing to do with policing.

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      The origin of policing in the US is runaway slave catching. It’d say its pretty damn in line with policing, historically speaking.

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        Modern policing maintains at least the veneer of enforcing the law (unless you’re powerful and/or rich).

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          That veneer only ever existed to people who wanted to see it and could afford to ignore the truth.

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      What American police in general tend to do has nothing to do with policing. It’s just that up until now white folk, outside of the absolute poorest classes, tended not to be on the receiving end of it.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    Kill a bunch of colored people, no one bats an eye. Shoot one white person and everyone loses their minds.

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      I think the issue is that they were executed in a situation where they posed no danger to the officer. This would be frightening for any legal citizen. Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever and all this logic does is force a useless purity test that gets us no where.

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        Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever

        Thank you.

        It’s depressing that this is so far down the thread, and has so few up votes.

        If Americans don’t pull together and work in a coordinated way they’ll never defeat the faccist takeover of their country.

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        Many POC are executed in situations where they pose no danger. Please don’t downplay the systemic racism present in the policing industry, we need to stand against this behaviour now more than ever.

        And at this point anyone using the term “purity test” should be ignored. It’s a term purely used to downplay systemic abuses of marginalised groups.

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          That’s kind of derailing. Nobody is downplaying that (except the racists who are are perpetuating the problem, but they’re okay with this too). Most people here have probably also been speaking out against all the violence against POC.

          If someone commented on a post about a POC being murdered by cops/ICE, and said “but what about the white people they killed,” you would call that derailing. And that’s exactly what you’re doing here.

          You’re downplaying the tragedy that is the implicit topic of this current post, which is the woman who was recently murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. You apparently don’t care about this event, because the victim was white, and you’re arguing that we should ignore it simply because she wasn’t a POC.

          we need to stand against this behavior now more than ever.

          Yes, exactly, so why are you taking issue with people doing just that?

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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          There needs to be a word beyond shortsighted that defines individuals who let perfect be the enemy of good.

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          Yes they are and I yelled about that too and you have no way of knowing who here did and didn’t. Yes the system is corrupt but the people you speak with here aren’t the system, we are individuals.

  • architect@thelemmy.club
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    Nah it’s more like the popular meme that whites women are spared is finally being shattered.

    No. Women are hated more than any other group. You’re about to learn first hand.