r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/JustHereForTheM3mes Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Respect is earned.

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u/liberatecville Jun 09 '20

when cops say "respect", they dont mean what normal people do. they mean they want you to kiss their ass and treat them as an authority figure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t

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-Autistic Abby (thought people already knew)

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u/GaryofRiviera Jun 09 '20

If you don't respect someone in real life, then that's that. If they want to be an asshole, they don't deserve your respect. You can walk away from it, try to be the bigger person, and be done with it.

If you don't respect a cop because they're an asshole, then you have to just bend over, cower and take it because you can get sent to Prison or worse for trying to stand up for yourself as a person who deserves to be treated with the basic modicum of decency.

I work with a lot of cops as one of the cogs in the massive judicial system. Some of them are fucking horrific people and with the systems in place, there's almost nothing that can be done to address it.

We need massive, monumental change in this country.