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Given how certain kinds of rhetoric from the political left demonizes police offers, it seems likely that many of them have found a home on the right.
by hrishid 6y ago
Given how certain kinds of rhetoric from the political left demonizes police offers, it seems likely that many of them have found a home on the right.
- watwut 6y agoThen again, if being cop attracts far right, then left is bound to notice, comment on it and hate them.
- tw000001 6y agoThis is something people are severely underestimating. If you slander and dehumanize 40-60% of the population with accusations of white supremacy, you're going to create a white supremacist movement where one did not previously exist.
- staticassertion 6y agoWhite supremacist infiltration of police organizations goes back a long time. Blaming the much more recent attention that people are paying to white supremacy for the movement itself is absurd. "You called me a white supremacist so now I am one" is nonsense. The FBI warned of white supremacist infiltration of police forces over a decade ago.
- bobwaycott 6y agoThat’s not how white supremacy works. More importantly, the history of US policing is firmly rooted in white supremacy.
- AaronFriel 6y agoI would like to believe that people have more personal agency than that, and that in fact, calling someone or their actions white supremacist does not make them such and instead causes them to reflect on what caused the accusation. If merely calling someone or their actions white supremacist makes them suddenly start self-identifying as a white supremacist and they don't see a problem with that, maybe the original accusation wasn't that wrong?
- itsgrimetime 6y agoThere is literally zero historical evidence of this. Police forces have been attracting white supremacists for decades: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-su...
- rsynnott 6y ago... Wait, your contention is that normal people are BECOMING WHITE SUPREMACISTS _for the purpose of spiting journalists_? ... What? I mean, what?
- Jade_Jet 6y agoConsidering that the police force were initially created for slave patrols, it’s not really surprising that white supremacy is a part of police culture. https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/ https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/ Edit: Note that this is not a right/left thing. This is just literally history that gets ignored in our schools.
- mountainboot 6y agoWhat nonsense is this? Falsely accusing someone of being a white supremacist does not turn them into a white supremacist.