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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8x8898 wrote

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

$20 says they don't allow cops to march. IIRC, that's what similar organizations in other cities have done. Because a gay person stops being gay when they put on a blue uniform, apparently.

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yo_soy_soja t1_j8x9y6a wrote

>Because a gay person stops being gay when they put on a blue uniform, apparently.

This unironically.

The Stonewall Uprising arose against police harassment. Police are generally the villains in the struggle for LGBT+ equality.

And we've seen innumerable instances where police officers from marginalized demographic group ultimately become complicit in the oppression of their own people. Black cops aren't any less cruel to black people.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8xb3bz wrote

> Police are generally the villains in the struggle for LGBT+ equality.

Really? Police pass legislation? Refuse to issue marriage licenses? Deny medical care?

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yo_soy_soja t1_j8xcwnu wrote

Laws only matter if/when they're enforced.

Police are the enforcers. When there's a boot on your neck, it's not gonna be a politician's or a C-suite executive's.

When bad laws are passed, police are the goons that enforce the will of (and protect) the ruling class.

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R_Morley t1_j9dkcd7 wrote

What law is repressing Gay people. MGL151B is a good law, and the courts are pretty damn good at enforcing it even. We are one of the most progressive states in the country. Public opinion overwhelmingly approves of gay rights. This isn't Oklahoma.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8xdqmc wrote

>Police are the enforcers.

I agree. They enforce what we (the royal we, citizens via popularly elected representatives and an independent judiciary) tell them to enforce. Would you rather they each enforce their own personal interpretation of right and wrong?

FFS, they're bureaucrats with guns, not philosopher kings.

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Turd___Ferguson___ t1_j8xejcr wrote

Dude, don't edit your post after someone has already replied to it. Bad form.

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