A Few Days Ago, I Made A Mistake

[arewethereyet]

I’m confused. Earlier, you said one can’t be bigoted against an occupation. Now, you say you’re attacking the position. Are you differentiating between ‘occupation’ and ‘position’?

Whether you are or not, I fail to see how it helps your argument. With very rare exceptions (dog units, police robots), cops are human beings. I’m not aware of a Platonic ideal of ‘police officer’. How can you attack the position of ‘cop’ without being prejudicial to the people performing those duties?

Boru

Maybe an example would help.

Let's say we have Sam. Sam is a wonderful person he donates blood and gives cookies to old ladies. Sams's occupation is as a police officer who by the very nature of American policing enforces state violence disproportionately against the poor and minorities. Sam doesn't like this but his duty and organization demands it. Sam wouldn't be patrolling a poor area of town to bust some young black men for dealing weed. The police officer as an enforcer of irrational and frankly draconian drug laws will. If I said all cops were evil. I'm talking about the former not the latter. Karl is still a wonderful person. The police officer is an enforcer of state violence and the organization of the police makes that possible.

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Technically I am Catholic.
And I am pro-life, just not anti-abortion.

Try harder.

Why I already won? The first button I posted more than did the trick showing how silly the comparison was. From there were just dicking around. But if wanna keep playing this silly game of vapid name-calling here 

I'm always impressed when you manage full sentences, grammar, punctuation, and correct spelling.