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Not ironic. Police unions are fundamentally different than other labor unions. This might spell it out for you: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-po
by riffic 6y ago
Not ironic. Police unions are fundamentally different than other labor unions. This might spell it out for you:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-police-unions-labor-movement https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-police-unions-l...
- cardamomo 6y agoThank you for sharing this. I learned a lot about police unions' tactics from this article.
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- angry_octet 6y agoI love that this is in Teen Vogue. It used to be that you'd only see this in Socialist Worker Daily or something.
- riffic 6y agoThe fact that it's Teen Vogue is 100% why I chose to link this and not any other article I could Google about cop unions.
- angry_octet 6y agoWhat I find most encouraging is that they wouldn't be printing it if there wasn't a receptive audience.
- camelite 6y agoLess than 4% of Teen Vogue's readership comes from actual teenagers.
- camelite 6y agoLess than 4% of Teen Vogue's readership comes from actual teenagers.
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- kortilla 6y agoTeenage targeted publications are actually pretty common ground for extremist viewpoints. It’s an audience pretty receptive to new ideas. Not having “adult responsibilities” nor having to really be a functioning member of society in general makes Marxism, Ayn Rand Capitalism, etc all pretty palatable and reasonable ideas (albeit normally to different cliques).
- angry_octet 6y agoFox and old white man media generally seems chock full of extremist propaganda and to have a throughly receptive audience. Frankly I think you're reguritating a Fox talking point.
- redis_mlc 6y agoWhat the GP meant was that homeowners generally don't protest in the streets because they have too much to lose. It doesn't cost a homeowner anything to watch Fox news, regardless of how extreme it is (or isn't these days.) Although ironically it's the left's identity politics that is subverting Western Civilization. Also ironic is that while BLM protests brought attention to police officer abuse, the issue is with police union power. In a previous HN post I explained why that's unlikely to be fixed because of how the power structure between DA's and police unions is constructed.
- kortilla 6y agoCalling Ayn Rand Capitalism extremist is a Fox talking point now? Isn’t that channel usually associated with right wing extremism? Is it possible that you didn’t understand the point I was making and you retreated into a political tribe reaction?
- angry_octet 6y agoYou should re-parse that sentence, because you're misrepresenting what I wrote.
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- Gibbon1 6y agoFor 70 years all this stuff was deliberately suppressed. But of late the corruption and raw incompetence has become too much.