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flamin lib

(14,559 posts) Tue Dec 23, 2014, 01:03 PM Dec 2014

What the NYPD union spokespeople don't get is that

the fear they are feeling since the deaths of their two fellow officers and the rash of social media threats is the same fear that is felt by so many young black men every time they make contact with the police.

Why isn't there a sense of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the thin Blue line? Can't they see the similarity between hating the Blue and hating the Black?

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What the NYPD union spokespeople don't get is that (Original Post) flamin lib Dec 2014 OP

Short answer--No. Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #1

Lot of cops believe they are part of the 1% tularetom Dec 2014 #2

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Short answer--No.

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 01:14 PM

Dec 2014

"Can't they see the similarity between hating the Blue and hating the Black?"

I think their us-v.-them mentality blinds them to the similarities, and numbs-out their capacity for empathy with those who are different from them. It's a highly destructive form of tribalism.

tularetom

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2. Lot of cops believe they are part of the 1%

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 01:18 PM

Dec 2014

Not financially, but they feel equal to the guys that make the decisions.

They don't realize that they actually are is the cheap hired help for the obscenely wealthy and they are held in the same contempt as the rest of us shitbirds.

I have no personal knowledge of how the uber rich regard cops but I have seen how it plays out on a local political level and believe me, a lot of these cops would be surprised (and pissed off) to hear how they are talked about in private by the same officials who praise them in public.

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