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My God, are people on the Internet twisting themselves into pretzels trying to get their latest outrage fix. Their latest Big Idea to Save the World and End Racism is to cancel all shows that put the police in a positive light. No more copaganda, they say, and the racism and police brutality will just disappear like morning fog.
Ha. Ha. Ha. What a gaggle of earnest, whiny simpletons. The world doesn't work that way. Cops aren't brutal assholes because TV shows portray them as the good guys forever and always. Cops are brutal assholes because they're trained to be and then given government sanction to use their power to the fullest possible extent, and because they are inhabitants of a society that mistakes snide cruelty for cutting-edge humor and empathy and consideration weakness. The TV shows only magnify what is already there.
But sure, cancel the TV shows. Much easier than tackling the issue with actually effective solutions like firing bad cops instead of protecting and excusing them, better training techniques that don't depend on depersonalization of bystanders, suspects, or offenders and that emphasize brute force and lethality as options of last resort, and an end to the idea that if you report a fellow cop for misconduct, you're a rat who'll be abandoned to the bad guys when the shooting starts. Who wants to do all that? That would take effort to implement, and money, and time to see results. Fuck that noise. Better to just nuke all the TV shows we suddenly find offensive. Getting rid of Blue Bloods and Brooklyn-99 and Law and Order: SVU is an instant, tangible result. Plus, it'll give us the righteousness high we're jonesing for. We can pat ourselves on the back for a job well done with one hand and jerk off with the other, and a grateful world will thank us.
Go fuck yourselves with a hot railroad spike. There are no easy roads to the world you want. Get off the Internet, get your hands out of your pants, and pull your heads out of your asses. You want change? Go after the real police; go after Congress. Take a risk beyond getting flamed on a forum. Do something beyond worthless, masturbatory slacktivism and leave the TV shows alone. Change the world and the shows will follow.
Ha. Ha. Ha. What a gaggle of earnest, whiny simpletons. The world doesn't work that way. Cops aren't brutal assholes because TV shows portray them as the good guys forever and always. Cops are brutal assholes because they're trained to be and then given government sanction to use their power to the fullest possible extent, and because they are inhabitants of a society that mistakes snide cruelty for cutting-edge humor and empathy and consideration weakness. The TV shows only magnify what is already there.
But sure, cancel the TV shows. Much easier than tackling the issue with actually effective solutions like firing bad cops instead of protecting and excusing them, better training techniques that don't depend on depersonalization of bystanders, suspects, or offenders and that emphasize brute force and lethality as options of last resort, and an end to the idea that if you report a fellow cop for misconduct, you're a rat who'll be abandoned to the bad guys when the shooting starts. Who wants to do all that? That would take effort to implement, and money, and time to see results. Fuck that noise. Better to just nuke all the TV shows we suddenly find offensive. Getting rid of Blue Bloods and Brooklyn-99 and Law and Order: SVU is an instant, tangible result. Plus, it'll give us the righteousness high we're jonesing for. We can pat ourselves on the back for a job well done with one hand and jerk off with the other, and a grateful world will thank us.
Go fuck yourselves with a hot railroad spike. There are no easy roads to the world you want. Get off the Internet, get your hands out of your pants, and pull your heads out of your asses. You want change? Go after the real police; go after Congress. Take a risk beyond getting flamed on a forum. Do something beyond worthless, masturbatory slacktivism and leave the TV shows alone. Change the world and the shows will follow.
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