• neons@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is absolutely stupid as noone actually wants the police and especially the army to ever have to use violence.

    This makes it look like we’re cheering for wars to happen and police to shoot minorities.

    This is also makes it look like there is no other way to police other than violence. Which is the exact opposite of what we want. We want a peaceful police peacefully settling disputes, not pulling a gun at every opportunity.

    • stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      noone actually wants the police and especially the army to ever have to use violence.

      maybe no one on Lemmy wants this…

      when I look around the world and it’s pretty clear that right wing political movements are ascendant and in our mainstream discourse. empathy is being redefined by fascists as ‘weakness’. police and military operations are ramping up across the planet, and certainly some of it is being cheered for by a non trivial number of people.

      IDK what your experience has been but “restoring law and order” and “securing the borders against immigrants” and “maybe they deserve to die” rhetoric is more common nowadays than any time in my life.

      but yeah I agree, no one - with functional values and ethics - wants this.