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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What's with these "no cops at Pride" comics?

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

police have a long and vibrant history of violent abuse of those who identify as LGBT+

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Shouldn't we be working against that, though? Isn't that the whole point of Pride... AND TREK?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that's why we're trying to abolish the police

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wellll... defund the police. Those are very different things. Taking money away from their protection and toys, for example, and putting it into training and non-police personal has been a major point of it.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A policing force that were not fundamentally corrupt in the way police are, would necessarily be an all new organisation with all new people, and it would not be called the police. Abolish the police and replace them with something better.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the new police, whatever you want to call them, have the power to enforce laws then they will be subject to all the same pressures as current police. Power corrupts!

The fact remains though is that there’s a very large number of people in the US who want the police to commit the violence they have. They’re voting for the politicians who pass these laws.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They won't be subject to being an organisation descended from slave catchers

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

You can find many of the same problems with police in other countries which don’t have the same ancestry.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

neither the point of pride, nor the point of Trek, has anything to do with including your oppressors/keeping your enemies closer. Unless you think Cardassians were the point?

[–] charonn0@startrek.website -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cardassians like Tekeny Ghemor and Aamin Marritza are right in line with the point of Trek.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] charonn0@startrek.website -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Don't invite wolves to the paddock.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

LGBT+ people have learned not to trust the police, and so will have a hard time relaxing and enjoying themselves if they are around.

Cops have motive, means and opportunity to abuse minorities they don't "approve" of. Therefore (and because of previous form) they have made themselves unwelcome.

[–] USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But that's not the part I'm asking about.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 5 months ago

People don't want cops at pride events.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Stonewall riots is a good place to start your history studies on the matter.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your completely sincere suggestion, which I'm sure was made in a good faith effort to have a mature and intelligent discussion on this topic, but I'm actually very well versed in LGBT+ history already.

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, so you're just trolling then, because I was answering honestly and you were asking in bad faith to be a troll.