cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15032962

Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text “you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?” Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      Harris isn’t (and wasn’t) a beat cop and since when does Batman stop and frisk?

      • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Yeah she was a prosecutor which in many ways is worse, prosecutors are at the center of much of what is wrong with the system, prosecutors may not be the ones on camera beating people but they ruin a lot of lives, families, & communitoes. Because of various laws passed over decades that prosecutors pushed for prosecutors have far more discretion(& therefore power) then judges.

        When we says she’s a cop we don’t mean she ran around with a gun & handcuffs(minus the exercise of power I’m all for people carrying both guns & kink exseseries, you gotta be prepared) we’re saying she was an integral part of a system of power that is central to the marginalization of vulnerable populations.

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          So she wouldn’t stop me “in an alley”. Got it. You can see how comparing her to Batman isn’t really very helpful for anyone, yeah?

            • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              When they’re this misleading and incorrect? Sure.

              • Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                You’re being needlessly pedantic, Harris isn’t a cop in the same way Trump isn’t a member of the Fascist party. I think you would know what someone means when they call Trump a fascist.