How I wanna be living

Eddie Chipp 🇬🇧

"Sloppy logic" he says while completely missing the point and making up an argument that wasn't even made... 🤪 Be fuckin' serious.

No where in this image does it say "human lives don't matter if they belong to cops" it says that there's no such thing as a blue lives. This is in the context of a slogan meant to defend non-white people from the systems of oppression and violence that are imposed upon them, and another slogan meant to counter the VERY NECESSARY first by comparing the value of the lives of the racially disenfranchised with the lives of the people who contribute directly to their oppression.

Guess what my guy... COPS AREN'T OPPRESSED. COPS DON'T FACE VIOLENCE ON THE BASIS OF AN IDENTITY THEY WERE ASSIGNED.

Add on top of that the facts that punitive justice systems are ineffective, that cops don't actually prevent crime or protect communities, they only show up to enforce punitive consequences, that the U.S. uses these punitive consequences to fuel the industrial prison complex for free labor, that the industrial prison complex disproportionately targets BIPOC people, and that the organization of police in the US is descended from slave-catchers.

Oh huh, lots of brown people being rounded up unjustly and being forced into unpayed labor for the profit and military advancement of rich white people... Where have I heard that story before...?

So how about you pull your head out of your ass, sit down, shut up, and do some research before you weigh in on the systems of violence that affect others. 🥴

Just some food for thought...

(via mountndo)