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Please tell this old guy what "ACAB" means.

• mxuribe 4y ago
  I had to look it up myself...but i think ACAB = All Cops Are Bastards (Source, for what its worth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB)
• m-ee 4y ago
  All cops are bastards. A belief that the institution of policing as we’ve built it is completely broken, and can’t be fixed by better training or weeding out bad apples.
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• shitlord 4y ago
  It stands for "All Cops Are Bastards". It was popular among left-wing people a couple of years ago during the George Floyd protests. The expression has now fallen out of favor for mostly everyone, other than the far-left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAB
  • drewbeck 4y ago
    A lot of folks who are and have been consistently harmed by police still use it, for good reasons.
    • dbsmith83 4y ago
      There is never a good reason for an `All ${large_population_of_people_defined_by_metric} are ${some_derogatory_thing}` statement
      • aedocw 4y ago
        Pretty sure you are wrong. Let's see... All Nazis are bastards. Yep, that works. All pedophiles are bastards. Still works.
        • dbsmith83 4y ago
          Point still stands: there was no good reason to make the statements because those are obvious. You said nothing of any value: "bad people who do the thing which we as a society have deemed bad are bad!"
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