It’s just the default stance. Kind of like assuming everyone on the road is a bad driver and driving defensively as a result. It’s safer to assume every cop you interact with is actively looking for a way to screw you over, will lie to you and will violate your rights given the opportunity. Even if it’s just most, or hell even rare that cops are bastards it only takes one interaction with one to have life altering consequences.
That way you can defend your rights and be pleasantly surprised on the rare opportunity you encounter one who isn’t a bastard, rather than be constantly disappointed (and possibly in jail or dead).
I don’t know it was used in the George Floyd protest because of how most cops are being complicit by not speaking out against rotten colleagues but I think those movements recognize that it’s meant as an anti-establishment slur.
Or just go full “one person was a bad person. Therefore all of this group are bad”
Then later “not all imigrants are bad just because one did a bad thing!”
There are good cops?
I was gonna say Smedley Butler, but looking at his actions as a cop he seems to have been more chaotic lawful
Yeah sure. Unless you’re in a cult, you know not everything is b&w.
I know that’s probably tongue in cheek but I wouldn’t be surprised if some people take acab literally.
It’s just the default stance. Kind of like assuming everyone on the road is a bad driver and driving defensively as a result. It’s safer to assume every cop you interact with is actively looking for a way to screw you over, will lie to you and will violate your rights given the opportunity. Even if it’s just most, or hell even rare that cops are bastards it only takes one interaction with one to have life altering consequences.
That way you can defend your rights and be pleasantly surprised on the rare opportunity you encounter one who isn’t a bastard, rather than be constantly disappointed (and possibly in jail or dead).
A ton of people do. Like it’s a common viewpoint. Especially on platforms like this.
People love to ignore shades of gray.
I don’t know it was used in the George Floyd protest because of how most cops are being complicit by not speaking out against rotten colleagues but I think those movements recognize that it’s meant as an anti-establishment slur.
Or just go full “one person was a bad person. Therefore all of this group are bad” Then later “not all imigrants are bad just because one did a bad thing!”
The double standard is so funny and sad to me