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Originally Posted by TonyReali
But the problem I have with this is that generalizing is not generalizing. It's not black and white. Cops are held in higher regards than a regular citizen and that is the reason why cops have more power than you and me (assuming you're not a police officer).Originally Posted by Nako XL
generalizing is generalizing. whether you hate someone for their skin, religion, chosen profession, whatever it may be. the point is to say "i hate someone although i dont know them, have never seen them work, don't know what theyre about" because of of a designation they fall under is ignorant. yes there are bad cops, there are also good cops.
sorry if i assumed you were justifying, i guess i didnt read it right.
With this power that they have, they can do a number of shady things with no repercussions... like search my car, cuff me, and put me in the back of a cop car for no reason... and that was only one instance.
That guy definitely could have worded his posts better, but I understand where he's coming from because I personally know how devious police officers are capable of being.
I'm done here
I don't have a problem with you or anyone else, but to call someone ignorant solely because they aren't fond of police officers isn't necessarily warranted.
i think we had a misunderstanding. i wasn't trying to take a shot at you or even calling you ignorant. the word ignorance wasn't even used in response to what it was i thought you said but rather the idea that knowing one person or even a few of a class of people means you know them all.
it's true that a lot of cops, in some communities even most of the cops, abuse their authority. that is undoubted. i understand what the guy was saying maybe he did just need to word his opinion better. but as it was written i disagreed with it.