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Re:Police Are Still Citing the Homeless, Despite CDC and Cou... by lonelappde on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:56AM (#22878432)
It's not a fair comparison to say "don't stereotype" as though race/religion/ gender is an equivalent category as an organized team of professionals who join up together for a common purpose in not just in one way but two (the force itself, and then again the union)
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Re:Police Are Still Citing the Homeless, Despite CDC and Cou... by zdragnar on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:53PM (#22880023)
"Cops" isn't an organization, or an institution, they are people.

Insulting people, pretending it is a criticism of an institution, then replying with a pithy "dont take it personally" is dehumanization. That would be like saying "professors suck" then insisting that no, you aren't insulting professors, you are criticising the academia. It's intellectually dishonest. It is pretending that professors aren't people, they are nothing more than a representation of a synthetic power structure.

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