And as far as the whole "duuuhhh a cop "saved" AOC so some cops are good mkay" take goes....

....Congratulations :amerikkka-clap: to our resident crypto-chuds for spending a whole month wracking your brains just to come up with the most media-conformist horseshit take of the year so far

Because yes, lets HELP the media rewrite history by pretending that it wasn't the DC pigs who let the "cOup fOrCeS" into the building, and that the class character of those people wasn't exclusively made up of COPS, off-duty cops, former cops, the fail children of cops, the fail mothers of cops, the fail uncles of cops who also happen to be cops, Military cops, cops temporarily suspended for killing black people and car dealership owners who are all informants for said cops

FUCK THAT PIG AND FUCK THE MEDIA :acab:

  • Catiline [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Examine the content and context of what he's saying critically.

    If your job is to protect the interests of the state, then preventing a mob from overthrowing the state is exactly what you’re expected to do. A socialist government would also need an armed force to prevent its overthrow. It’s okay to acknowledge this and to discern this from the use of wanton force against communities of color for the interests of capital and white supremacy. These two scenarios aren’t remotely similar and its stupid to pretend that they are.

    If you are going to say fuck every cop that did their job during a literal attempt at overthrowing the government, then it stands to reason that you think that an angry mob of fascists attempting to install a white-ethno-state should go completely unopposed. And if you think that, then I have to question what motivates you to be a part of the left.

    Deliberately or not, it's an attempt at laundering the reputation of an organization that is the chief enforcer of oppression and the well-spring of institutionalized white nationalism in the United States. It's revisionism depicting the police as the final obstacle to an fascist take-over, while neglecting to mention that they are quite literally responsible for ushering the reactionaries into the building and, in off-duty capacity, composing a very significant number of the reactionary ranks. What occurred with the shooting of that woman was not a skin-of-the-teeth defeat of fascism, but rather an apparatus of the bourgeois disciplining one of it's auxiliaries after they overstepped their bounds.

    Any argument that frames the police as anything other than a body with the explicit purpose of intimidating the proletariat must be refuted.

    Any argument that frames the police as anything other than a body that reinforces — not defends — from white nationalism and fascism must be refuted, otherwise it will lead to the proliferation of fatal assumptions regarding who can and cannot be allied with and how the bourgeois state functions.

    Hypotheticals involving violence to AOC and other more 'popular' representatives are abused as rhetorical devices meant to elicit visceral emotional responses to detract from a material grasp of the situation.