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ID: teen @COMMIEdaughter posted: “please do not use words like “policeman” or “policewoman.” Use gender neutral terms like “tools of the capitalist bourgeoisie and enemy of the people”.”

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[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Police person" also implies that police are people...

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Oh, they're definitely people, just class betraying, oppressive, abusive people, who dedicate their lives to work exclusively in service of even more oppressive and abusive people, in exchange for some power to trip on.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i kno, police bad. i jus don come from US so police here is not so bad at all. i really do feel safer when those peeps are around.

so dehumanizing, at least to me, seems unreasonable.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

Police Entity. Pronoun "it".

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

They're people. Dehumanizing anyone is gross and wrong.