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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I know it's a joke, but why would a shapeshifter 350 years into the future on a planet 50 lightyears away be guilty of any of the same prejudices that our local cops are?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago

Never ask:

  • A woman her age.

  • A man his salary.

  • Odo what he did during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The A in ACAB stands for "ALL." Even to 350 year old shapeshifters in a totally different part of the galaxy, hundreds of years from now.

And I mean, just look at his record from the Occupation. He did some fucked up shit.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

"No cops at pride" is not about the prejudices of individual cops, be they fictional future shapeshifters from half a galaxy away, or real police here and now. There are LGBTQ+ cops out there.

The issue is the fact that cops enforce the law regardless of how just the law might be. Odo was the chief of security aboard Terek Nor while it was under Cardassian control, and while in that role rushed three innocent Bajoran workers to execution so he could maintain order aboard the station.

Even once the station became Bajoran owned and Starfleet operated, Odo was still willing to conduct illegal surveillance, lock people in the detention facility on trumped up charges, and impose a strict curfew. Personally I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to assume that Odo would be willing to lock up people participating in a Pride event for no other reason than that he was told to do so, and they were causing a minor disruption on the Promenade.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

pssh some people have no respect for tradition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Because when he was learning to live among humanoids, the rule of law provided a form of structure he could understand, and Odo has yet to surpass the cognitive development milestone of a 12 year old.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kira isn't Starfleet, so that means she just grabbed Jadzia's phaser and pointed it at someone!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

In the US cops:

  • Take trans kids away from supportive parents in states with laws against that
  • Selectively target LGBT people for unequal enforcement of often unconstitutional laws (ex: obscenity laws)
  • Disproportionately use force against trans people (more than 1/4th according to the ACLU).

Imagine how much it would fuck you up if a cop kicked you around, threw you in lockup with the wrong gender, and then you see the shit stain getting paid to be at Pride.

And just being there, getting paid to do nothing is the best you can hope for. Plenty of times they just watch bigots harass or attack the people at Pride and either do nothing or arrest the victims.

Cops who want to come to Pride out of uniform on their own time because they’re LGBT+ or whatever, most people don’t care about that.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

More importantly, Pride itself a reference to the Stonewall Riots, in which cops brutally assaulted LGBTQ+ citizens with great malice and the citizens fought back.

June 28th, 1969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

The first Pride Parade was a year later, on June 27th, 1970

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_parade#First_pride_marches

The reason cops shouldn't be allowed at Pride is because cops violence against the LGBTQ+ community is why Pride fucking exists to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

One of my friends from a local theater group I did some musicals with had a brick pin they wear to every pride event they attend.

It's my favorite pin ever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Damn... US cops are really just the worst most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, Germany would never do that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Shower grade thought: whatever protest or manifestation proud boys might do, with firearms in plain view, nobody is going to even notice. Pride, BLM or similar if there’s guns for actual self defense rather than intimidation? How big of a bloodbath would it to turn into?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

Because they almost always act like pricks and they've got a rich history of oppressing and harrassing LGBTI people. That's why.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stonewall was caused by NYPD, soo… it might feel weird to have police at Pride now?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Stonewall was a mafia bar that paid off the cops to leave their largely LGBTQ clients alone. The cops decided to ignore the agreement and harass the LGBTQ people there, and it turned into days of violence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Because the police enforce the laws of the state, often with violence. If the law dictates that a person being open about their identity is illegal regardless of the fact their identity harms no one, and everyone involved in their actions consents, than it is the responsibility of the cops to oppress them. One year the cops might march alongside people at pride, and then the laws might change and they'll be there to bust heads of anyone who shows up the next year.

And yeah, there no doubt exist LGBTQ+ cops, or cops whose friends and/or family whom they love are LGBTQ+, but so long as they wear the uniform they represent an organization used to oppress marginalized and minority communities.

Fundamentally, pride is not just a party, it is a protest.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Fundamentally, pride is not just a party, it is a protest.

Rainbow parades or Rainbow bricks.

Ain't no one going to let Stonewall happen again without a fight.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

That rainbow brick goes hard

Damn I'd love one of those

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Fundamentally, pride is not just a party, it is a protest.

And people often tend to say "but why do they need the parade if we let them be?" Because otherwise it'll be a couple of years before someone will start lynchings.

I just hope the society will sometimes be free of fear for everyone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

read about the stonewall riots for history on the cops vs. LGBTQ people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Why does the Major have a lesbian flag?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because that’s what the artist decided to draw. Maybe Kira has it for someone she knows who identifies as a lesbian. Maybe she was just getting into the spirit of things and grabbed the first flag she saw.

Obviously in canon Kira only expresses interest in dudes with the personalities of dry toast, but mirror Kira is a bit more open. It’s not entirely clear if sexual orientation is 1:1 across universes, so who’s to say if prime Kira experiences same sex attraction or not?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Serious observation, Prime Sulu is straight and Kelvin Sulu is gay (there was a whole brou ha ha about that with George Takei when Beyond came out). So there is a possibility of orientation deviation (heh) between timelines if they stray far enough from each other.

In the case of the Mirror Universe, I think it's strictly a "same exact people but in different situations" thing. Even while it was still on the air, I assumed Prime Kira was closeted and that was part of why none of her relationships worked out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Prime Sulu is straight and Kelvin Sulu is gay

Do we know that prime Sulu is straight? He flirts with a woman in "The Way to Eden" and when the literal devil from Christen mythology is aboard the Enterprise in "The Magiks of Megas-Tu" Sulu is able to conjure a woman using the magical properties.

Mirror Sulu clearly is interested in Uhura, despite her rebuffs.

And we do see Kelvin Sulu ever so briefly with his husband and child in "Beyond", causing an uproar well out of proportion to how little the movie choose to show.

However, all those characters might be bisexual. We do exist.

Even while it was still on the air, I assumed Prime Kira was closeted and that was part of why none of her relationships worked out.

People have relationships that don't work out without being queer.

But yeah, prime Kira is a religious conservative who is grossed out by how libertine Dax is -- dating Ferengi, and dudes with transparent skulls -- and while we're never told how Bajorans view queer relationships, I do view mirror Kira's more unrestrained nature as indication that her prime counterpart is holding back a part of herself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yes, it was about being gay or straight. Kelvin Sulu was given a husband in honor of George Takei... an honor he rebuked because he felt they only changed the character for cheap representation points. He insisted that even though he is gay, the Sulu he portrayed is straight. (In Generations, Sulu is married and has a daughter, Demora, who helmed the Enterprise-B.)

Personally, I feel like since John Cho's Sulu is a different person in a different universe (and Cho himself is cool being a straight Korean playing a gay Japanese) Takei didn't need to get so angry about it.

We do exist.

Please don't assume that I thought otherwise just because I didn't explicitly mention every potentiality in that one post.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Mirror Georgiou puts forward the same hypothesis in Discovery when she sexually harasses Stamets and his boytoy.

And she's right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm straight, can I wear a pride flag?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely! The basic rainbow is good to show support regardless of orientation. You could do specific one(s) if you have people that identify as that, it just might require additional explanation.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not 100%, but I feel the author may just be engaging in some Kira/Dax shipping. Which wouldn’t jibe great with the canon, but when has that ever stopped a good ship?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

@BowtiesAreCool @USSBurritoTruck because it's Pride and she wants to have one

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

All Constables Are Boneless

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So not even gender fluid cops like Odo?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

To be fair, I think he's just regular fluid

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