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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[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 day 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 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day 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 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day ago

Police Entity. Pronoun "it".

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

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

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

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