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Calling out cops for their bad behavior is inhumane? Saying that I won't support cops financially is inhumane? Next time I catch a beat down for no reason I'l

• JPKab 7y ago
  You aren't calling out individual cops for bad behavior. You are collectively blaming an entire group for individual misdeeds. This fits the very definition of dehumanization. If I am making judgments on the morality or individuals without knowing them personally, or even knowing their ideology, I am dehumanizing them. Collective guilt is the pinnacle of every horrifying genocide ever perpetrated. "The Jewish man didn't let me into art school, they are all evil." "The 19 Muslim men blew up the buildings, they are all evil." It sounds like you are being victimized by a shitty police department. That's a problem, but it doesn't mean that a police department in my state would give you the same problems. You know this, but don't want to believe it, because then you'd have to recognize your own prejudice and correct it. And that would be uncomfortable, so just carry on.