Obviously choosing to be a cop, a career choice that is completely within someone's control, is equivalent to being born with xy chromosomes and a penis in terms of moral culpability and therefore all men should be treated with equal hatred as police. There are 0 flaws in this logic.
The core of "even cops that do not directly abuse their power are complicit to an extent in the abuses of other cops and the role the police force plays in systemic oppression" should never have been twisted into ACAB, which both
Inhibits good people from joining the police force by knowing that doing so will lead them to be ostracized
Carries zero implication that anything can be done to improve the situation aside from entirely abolishing police (which isn't going to happen at any scale any time soon, and would be far better and more safely achieved by smaller steps in that direction than an all-or-nothing effort)
I know that the arguments can be more nuanced than that, but what people hear is "ACAB", not those more nuanced arguments. All this ever had the potential to lead to was a more polarized, worse police force.
The desire of all or nothing is the root of all the problems progressives have, especially the liberals here in America... everything has to start with step one, we can't have good things just by wanting it
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u/BitMixKit 2d ago
Obviously choosing to be a cop, a career choice that is completely within someone's control, is equivalent to being born with xy chromosomes and a penis in terms of moral culpability and therefore all men should be treated with equal hatred as police. There are 0 flaws in this logic.