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Acoustic_Ginger t1_j8rnert wrote

Reply to comment by KerPop42 in MPD Officer often fed information to Proud Boys leader by oxidadapanda

Many police departments literally started as slave patrols. Police have never had a purpose other than enforcing white supremacy. I wasn't trying to be edgy, I was accurately describing policing in the US.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/13/876628302/the-history-of-policing-and-race-in-the-u-s-are-deeply-intertwined

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justmahl t1_j8ro1sf wrote

Calls it historical revisionism but clearly doesn't know the actual history smh.

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denarii t1_j8s83ep wrote

> Police have never had a purpose other than enforcing white supremacy.

Well, they also have an origin in strike breakers too.

Their purpose has always been enforcing white supremacy and keeping the working class in their place more broadly.

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KerPop42 t1_j8rp8ua wrote

Many informal police departments in slave states started as police patrols. But you contradict the logic of your source when you say, "Police have *never* have a purpose other than enforcing white supremacy." When your article mentions that the first fully funded full-time police force was founded in Boston half a century after slavery was abolished there. What you're doing is revising history to make it quippier.

Edit: you're also revising history in arguing that there was no infiltration of the police in the Bush Jr administration because your version where they're already infiltrated is quippier.

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Acoustic_Ginger t1_j8rqso6 wrote

Boston has been known as one of the most racist cities in the North East, at least. White supremacy does not begin and end with slavery.

Loud white supremacists infiltrated the police department. They were already built on it. here's another article that highlights that: https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2021/12/08/the-history-of-policing-in-the-us-and-its-impact-on-americans-today/

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KerPop42 t1_j8rrb36 wrote

Now you're moving the goalposts. You started saying that the white can't infiltrate police departments, and now you're saying they did. Fuck off, this conversation isn't worth having.

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Acoustic_Ginger t1_j8rrv06 wrote

you've also ignored an additional source that backs up the "they can't be infiltrated since they were already white supremacists" claim

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Acoustic_Ginger t1_j8rrjs3 wrote

why are you hung up on me using language that is trying to meet you where you are. me saying that was because you got so up in arms about me saying they couldn't be infiltrated. I still maintain they can't. The fear was that more people would catch on if they were too explicit about it

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OctoberCaddis t1_j8sce0f wrote

This person isn’t arguing in good faith. Name any city you like and they’d claim it was the most racist in America.

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