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Re:The Privatization of Policing by s1artibartfast on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:36PM (#34221752)
I often hear this whataboutism and am not sure why.

Do you see the problems or solutions somehow in competition?

Can people not care about two things?

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Re:The Privatization of Policing by prepend on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:33PM (#34223270)
I think the reasoning goes something like:

1) corporations are guilty of wage theft and not prosecuted

2) shoplifting harms corporations

3) harming corporations is ok because they are guilty.

Different in scale, but I think it’s similar to the “it’s ok to punch a Nazi” rationale.

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