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ID: teen @COMMIEdaughter posted: “please do not use words like “policeman” or “policewoman.” Use gender neutral terms like “tools of the capitalist bourgeoisie and enemy of the people”.”

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Police person" also implies that police are people...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i kno, police bad. i jus don come from US so police here is not so bad at all. i really do feel safer when those peeps are around.

so dehumanizing, at least to me, seems unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Oh, they're definitely people, just class betraying, oppressive, abusive people, who dedicate their lives to work exclusively in service of even more oppressive and abusive people, in exchange for some power to trip on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Police Entity. Pronoun "it".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're people. Dehumanizing anyone is gross and wrong.

[–] Eheran 0 points 1 month ago

They love it, because they target "the other side", because "they deserve it". Said every bad person ever.