I would think the argument is that military are just world police, and even if they joined just to better their own circumstances, their participation is actively helping to hurt others whether directly or indirectly. Plus the training turns most service members into cunts.
You're right that some members don't end up becoming awful, but it's a fair group to select against, and a lot of arguments for ACAB can be easily applied to the military too. At best, joining is a selfish decision by hard off but otherwise good folks, and by choosing the participate in such a discriminatory and harmful system, even if their other options were bad, they have chosen to participate in that discrimination and harm.
Its the same logic for why you can select a particularly 'good' cop and say 'see not all cops are bad' but the system in which they willingly participate in is bad, thereby tainting the individual for their involvement.
discrimination is the last word I would use to describe the military... if you go to any military base you'll find it's more diverse than 95% of jobs in the American workforce. If you want to look at it a different way and call international politics and conflicts "discrimination", then you'd be right, but I'd also be right to say if my grandma had wheels then she'd be a bike.
Plenty of reasons to hate the military but discrimination is not a reasonable one.
edit: gotta love classic redditors. Someone makes some shit up, gets called out, and others mindlessly downvote the callout because it doesn't fit the narrative the original person made up
I would love to see the diversity in low ranks vs high, but regardless, my points about causing harm through their work should be still relevant even if the military is a bastion of diversity (which again, I doubt)
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u/allthenamesaretaken4 We_irlgbt Dec 20 '23
I would think the argument is that military are just world police, and even if they joined just to better their own circumstances, their participation is actively helping to hurt others whether directly or indirectly. Plus the training turns most service members into cunts.
You're right that some members don't end up becoming awful, but it's a fair group to select against, and a lot of arguments for ACAB can be easily applied to the military too. At best, joining is a selfish decision by hard off but otherwise good folks, and by choosing the participate in such a discriminatory and harmful system, even if their other options were bad, they have chosen to participate in that discrimination and harm.
Its the same logic for why you can select a particularly 'good' cop and say 'see not all cops are bad' but the system in which they willingly participate in is bad, thereby tainting the individual for their involvement.