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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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That's racist! As a white person I have also been harassed by the police. They are indiscriminate with their discrimination. How dare you make assumptions.
I'm white and have been illegally searched and detained by the police and had property damaged in the process.
Let's not pretend that's a remotely normative experience for white people compared to people of color. My parents never had to sit down and have the talk with me about the police.
You and your parents are class ignorant if you think the role of police in American society has anything to do with skin color. It is to protect Ruling Class property interests first and foremost rejecting that reality makes you a fool at best, and a class enemy at worse.
That's the purpose of the institution "police". You're ignoring that every institution is made up of individuals, and the sorts of individuals that like joining the monopoly on violence tend to be of a very specific sort.