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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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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 53 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I'm old. I've always used "pig" instead.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Pigs are useful. Cops aren't.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 17 hours ago

That's an insult to pigs.

[–] Mindwolf@lemm.ee 10 points 16 hours ago

Came here to say the same thing. "Pig" is a good gender neutral term and has universal appeal.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 16 hours ago

I believe the current term is "class traitor"

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Cop is short and gets the message across

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 9 points 14 hours ago

Capitalist Oppressive Person?

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

just use the collective police. that way it non-specific, which if i were police person, i'd really like <3

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 29 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours 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 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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 7 points 16 hours ago

Police Entity. Pronoun "it".

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works -1 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

I couldn't give two fucks what a bastard would like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯