I feel like ACAB is just like the “all men are rapists”. Yes, there are nice men and nice cops. ACAB does not mean that every single one of them is a fascist, but due the the systematic issues surrounding these groups and their behaviour, you as a citizen/woman just can’t trust that that this specific cop/man isn’t a bad one. Thus, all cops are bastards and all men are rapists, just to be safe.
i strongly disagree with “just to be safe” justification. fascists use exactly that narrative for scaremongering about minorities, like “all immigrants are dangerous”.
the main difference between being cop, or being men, or being immigrant is that you actively choose being a cop, whereas nobody asks you to choose your sex or gender, and nobody provides you a citizenship on arrival to a foreign country
The reason ACAB is justifiable is that policing, at least in a modern capitalist society, is so fundamentally broken that to even join the force you have to make a serious moral compromise. You can claim you’re fixing it from the inside, you can try to keep to yourself, but no matter what you do, by the act of signing that initial contract of employment you’re participating in and materially supporting the violence arm of your local elites.
Sounds more like justifying reasons to hate without having reasons.
Well the ACAB thing is actually justifiable, people try to keep their ingroup save, even if they don’t like specific individuals in that ingroup and understandable people outside that group really really don’t like that bullshit which is fair. add to that that Murica’s culture is pretty cancerous and voilà.
While on the other hand you have sexist incel rhetoric.
I feel like ACAB is just like the “all men are rapists”. Yes, there are nice men and nice cops. ACAB does not mean that every single one of them is a fascist, but due the the systematic issues surrounding these groups and their behaviour, you as a citizen/woman just can’t trust that that this specific cop/man isn’t a bad one. Thus, all cops are bastards and all men are rapists, just to be safe.
i strongly disagree with “just to be safe” justification. fascists use exactly that narrative for scaremongering about minorities, like “all immigrants are dangerous”. the main difference between being cop, or being men, or being immigrant is that you actively choose being a cop, whereas nobody asks you to choose your sex or gender, and nobody provides you a citizenship on arrival to a foreign country
The reason ACAB is justifiable is that policing, at least in a modern capitalist society, is so fundamentally broken that to even join the force you have to make a serious moral compromise. You can claim you’re fixing it from the inside, you can try to keep to yourself, but no matter what you do, by the act of signing that initial contract of employment you’re participating in and materially supporting the violence arm of your local elites.
Sounds more like justifying reasons to hate without having reasons.
Well the ACAB thing is actually justifiable, people try to keep their ingroup save, even if they don’t like specific individuals in that ingroup and understandable people outside that group really really don’t like that bullshit which is fair. add to that that Murica’s culture is pretty cancerous and voilà.
While on the other hand you have sexist incel rhetoric.
Maybe they’re both absolutist, misleading, and fairly unhelpful?