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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8sbl6y wrote

Reply to comment by Conan776 in Boston’s Pride parade set to return this summer under new leadership and new name by bostonglobe

I hope they're doing something. From what I was reading and viewing back in 2019 it just became a huge ass mess of groups playing struggle Olympics and making undefined arguments about inclusiveness. I lost it at the refusal of the gay police group. Yeah I realize Stonewall was a riot against police, if anything a gay police group should be celebrated and serve as a sign of how far we've come socially.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8sl8zn wrote

That's a great message for queer cops who want to change the system.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8snbkz wrote

You can read my about, it's my hockey number not a Nazi thing. Don't accuse everyone you disagree with of being a Nazi it gets old.

And that's bs. As someone who's queer who works in a very conservative field that's how shit gets done, from the inside. Not from exclusion.

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BostonBroke1 t1_j8tffuw wrote

as someone who worked in the prison system - i disagree that change happens from within. All the CO's i worked with are sad sacks of shit. There's a reason they were hired. Those that want to change policing and police brutality are NOT directly joining those positions.

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tilehinge t1_j8wwl1o wrote

The point of the system is brutality and oppression. It will handily resist all internal efforts to change, because it controls the people within it - their paychecks, their livelihoods, and even their lives. If it decides you're a Problem, they'll toss you out in a hot second.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8wxo1t wrote

That sounds like a lot of blanket statements.

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tilehinge t1_j8xeqls wrote

Ask Houston Tipping how "change from within" went.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8xfbwc wrote

Wow, one individual case that doesn't address the actual issue or point I'm trying to make.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8xhn4r wrote

Redditors will abandon any and all stated principles as soon as a group they dislike (in this case, cops) stands on the other side.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8xjvp5 wrote

I feel like it separates who actually lives in the real world and who lives behind a keyboard all day.

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tilehinge t1_j8xzc2m wrote

Lol what principle did I abandon? "Fuck cops" is pretty core for me.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8y243l wrote

r/boston: "Police should be a part of the community they serve"

Police: "Cool, can our LGBT officers be a part of the parade?"

r/boston: autistic screeching

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tilehinge t1_j8yct03 wrote

Cops should be accountable to the community. Until they are - and they're nowhere close yet - communities, including the queer community, have every right to exclude them, and rightfully so. But cool ableism anyway.

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