• gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I’m not just talking about the US police. I’ve never been to the US, and I assure you the police is shit here too. Ts’o is American, and that “thin blue line” saying seems especially American or Anglo. I’ve never heard that over here. So I’m not sure how that’s even relevant to the discussion.

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      3 days ago

      BLM and ACAB are very American centric movements/sentiments. Hence why I took your comments to be American focused.

      Whilst I’ve heard the phrase “thin blue line” before, it’s never been something associated with racist overtones or subjugative ones in my experience. More that the police is a small community protecting the larger population.

      As such, someone using it context of not allowing the proliferation something is reasonable, if possibly histrionic in this case.