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ID: teen @COMMIEdaughter posted: “please do not use words like “policeman” or “policewoman.” Use gender neutral terms like “tools of the capitalist bourgeoisie and enemy of the people”.”

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Police person" also implies that police are people...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Oh, they're definitely people, just class betraying, oppressive, abusive people, who dedicate their lives to work exclusively in service of even more oppressive and abusive people, in exchange for some power to trip on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i kno, police bad. i jus don come from US so police here is not so bad at all. i really do feel safer when those peeps are around.

so dehumanizing, at least to me, seems unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Police Entity. Pronoun "it".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

They're people. Dehumanizing anyone is gross and wrong.