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its almost like the police needs to be neutral.
Are you fucking dense?
do you know what your saying.
Yes: The police should support human rights. It's pretty plain and simple.
Yes, we can't have state institutions voicing support for a vulnerable demographic's right to exist. We could risk that bigots would not feel welcome.
so you want the police to have preferences for specific groups you like. so what happens when they do this with groups you don't like. if you don't get why state institutions need to be neutral and treat every body the same your fucking moron.
You're absolutely right. Like, the police shouldn't have anything to do with supporting rape victims, because that might upset rapists. And the police shouldn't have campaigns supporting the families of murder victims, because that might offend the murderers. And, most of all, the police shouldn't be showing solidarity with any social demographic whatsoever, for the blindingly obivous reason that to do so might challenge the people who want to see that demographic exterminated. So obvious!
You utter fucking slab.
ah yes rape and murder are political .what pro rape and murder political groups are there in the uk? good on you to conflate murder and rape with some political ideology because that's what the LGBT are now an ideology. not just something you do. i really see why you are the one that gets the use insults you dopie fuck.
no the police should not be showing solidarity with any social demographic group whatsoever. they should not even have the slightest look of preferring one group over the other because there the fucking police.
So protecting demographics from hate crimes is out of the question? How do you propose thru do that without showing solidarity?
This entire site is so fucking pathetic. The two of you are arguing over fucking pride flags on police cars. Both of you need to grow up.
It goes further than just the precise text of the ruling and what decoration you can have on some cars. This will embolden people who want to kill queer people and/or force them in the closet. Trans people have already been killed by biggots emboldened by court rulings and the CASS report. There's been pogroms against people of different ethnicities in the past year already. Only a matter of time until they target LGBTQIA+ people too.
dude this is the internet who are you kidding you are here just like me drama queen
are you really this dense they should do there job. you are only for this because you like this personally but once they stop promoting shit you personally don't like you are going to be against this really fucking fast once they do this for groups you dislike. and this shows that the police should not be in the business of showing solidarity or anything else with nobody. they should do there job equally for everybody. they should not be advertisements for any group. this is the whole reason the concept of why justice should be blind even exists.
Protecting vulnerable demographics is doing their job.
bravo you summed up part of their job do you want a cookie. that's not what this is about is it. if you cant see why its a bad idea for police to become billboards for your personal demographic groups and that this can backfire on you so badly. what are you going to do when they put shit on there cars you don't like. this is so stupid.
if you believe the police are "neutral" then you are either genuinely one of the most ignorant people alive or you know you're full of shit and you like how they're biased
they should strive to be neutral they should enforce the law equally for everybody because they represent state power if you don't get that your a moron. because you know very well if they would be doing this for groups you dislike you would not be supporting this and that alone shows that the police should never be overtly supporting one group.
baby's first thoughts about the pigs are of no interest to me. drown in your own piss dipshit.
i see you are a very serious person with talk like that who would not want to join you.
The police need to be at pride to protect people from hate crimes you moron.
this was about the shit on there vehicles moron. why are you even talking when you don't even know basic shit.
And you don't think this ruling will deter them from attending pride? Which they would have to do to protect people there? Simply doing so could be read as a "political act".
you are being very disingenuous this only has to do with what they put on there cars. the only thing on a police car should be police. i did notice that you totally ignored when i said that you would be totally against this if they would be punting something on there car of a group you dislike and you would have no argument against it clearly.
Rulings don't happen in isolation. They have knock on effects on other things. Here in the UK, we have race riots, book bans and the country with the most cultural influence on us is turning into the new Nazi Germany. This ruling occurs in that context.
just maybe the police should have never done this in the first place and definitely in this context.