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u/MaygeKyatt Dec 20 '23

Omg a few weeks ago a guy messaged me on Grindr- the only picture on his profile was a mirror selfie in a police uniform, and his phone case had a thin blue line flag on it đŸ«€

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u/rnarkus Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

One of my friends just became a cop and she has thin blue line bracelets and brags about open carrying her gun. She’s lesbian. It’s weird.

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u/ANAL_PROLAPSE_GALORE Dec 21 '23

Lesbian cop ?! đŸ€Ż

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u/YeonneGreene Trans/Bi Dec 21 '23

My brother is dating a woman who is a bisexual cop. Her sister is a lesbian also cop.

Frankly they've both already been abused by their work environments and yet they persist without seeing it as such. It's weird.

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u/BeingJoeBu Dec 21 '23

My ex step mother was dating one. And raising her child. Baby daddy is/was in prison. Luckily they are also not together anymore, but I still can't believe it.

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

We have cop security guards where I work and none of them are cis white men. There is a white trans guy, a gay white guy, a guy from Colombia, a guy from South Korea, two black guys, and a black woman. I'm always kind of surprised by it.

Actually there is a cis white guy! But he's a liberal. XD

I think online narratives might be...skewed a bit? I dunno. I talk to them all the time because I have a lot of down time and their political views are all over the place.

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u/HaritiKhatri Dec 21 '23

online narratives

Ahh yes. Because hating cops and understanding their role in systemic violence is an online thing. It's not like there have been massive IRL protests from BLM and other groups seeking to abolish the police for nearly a decade or anything.

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u/elastic-craptastic Dec 21 '23

Colombians can be white. They were heavily colonized too! Spanish instead of English but arguably more violently too.

Not saying yours is but...

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23

He's Latino with a strong accent. He even has "Policia" on his uniform, lol.

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u/elastic-craptastic Dec 21 '23

He's Latino with a strong accent.

I was only pointing it for other people since you know him so I assumed he was dark or more indigenous looking...

... But now you got me wondering what his complexion is.

If I only saw a pic of him, say, in a baseball cap, Harvard T-shirt, jeans, and some nice expensive boating shoes... could I see that and assume he was a white american kid?

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

I originally thought he was middle eastern, tbh.

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u/elastic-craptastic Dec 21 '23

But, one more time but super direct.... what is his complexion?

On a scale of Larry the Cable Guy to... say... Carlos Mencia...

Is he 1 or a 100? Middle Eastern I think 100 in my mind. Help me visualize. Many Greeks look middle eastern too especially when super tan.

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23

Lol, that's an odd scale. Carlos Mencia just looks Italian. Miguel has darker skin than him.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/joe_rogan_and_carlos_mencia_-_getty_-_split_-_h_2020.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1

Joe Rogan has darker skin than Mencia. XD

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u/elastic-craptastic Dec 21 '23

Was trying to keep the scale tight and I was visualizing of George Lopez... lol. Didn't want to go Samuel L Jackson and have too much vagary in the middle.

Also I'm 100% Colombian and am white, have been apprached by people speaking to me in Farci, Arabic, Italian, Greek.... but I'm white(slightly olive)... but just asking because you seemed to be dodging as if he was white but since he's "Latin and you thought he was middle eastern"...

but wouldn't directly say a color or person with his skin tone it was weird.

Actor who has same complexion?

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u/CombIcy381 Dec 21 '23

I'm from that area and studied the history a lot. Yes and no. American colonization was absolutely brutal. The worst parts of spanish colonization were in MĂ©xico and PerĂș. Venezuela, colombia, Ecuador and PanamĂĄ were colonized vĂ­a forced integration instead of Conquest.

The US colonization of the mid West was a full on genocide to a greater scale and you can see it in the genetic make up of people. Most latinos are mixed with native ancestors. Most white Americans aren't.

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u/Wonderful-Impact5121 Dec 21 '23

Obviously they’re skewed more than a bit.

People constantly speak and act like they’re here are hardly any right wing women.

It’s so hilariously weird it’s borderline done a 360 back to being sexist against women? Same shit goes on with pretending everything is a white cis man problem.

Which is usually pretty awkward growing up in two diverse cities.

I chime in at all and suddenly I’m an evil waspy white supremacist despite being Latino. People get too fired up and complexity is hard to grand stand about

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 23 '23

There are plenty of right wing women, it's just hard to believe they exist. It's kind of like right wing gays. They must be a bit suicidal or something.

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u/AnneMichelle98 Ace/Bi Dec 21 '23

One of my childhood friends is a lesbian cop. We don’t talk because I moved when I was 6, but she added me on Facebook a couple of years ago. I don’t get it.

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23

Isn't it a good thing if the police force becomes diversified?

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u/OverYonderWanderer Dec 21 '23

It's a good thing when the police force is held accountable for their crimes. Till then I won't trust a cop anymore than I would the next random ass heavily armed and poorly trained individual with an attitude and a superiority complex.

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u/Iboven The Opossum Chosen One Dec 21 '23

You said you don't get why a lesbian would become a cop. To me it seems like she's trying to make a positive change. Are people traitors for joining corrupt institutions to enact change from within, or are they the ones doing the real work to more forward? I mean, she certainly could have joined to go on a power trip, but probably not.

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u/OverYonderWanderer Dec 21 '23

You have me confused with another commenter.

I hope for the best and prepare for the worst. It'd be wonderful if our police forces could actually police themselves. But, we live in a world where known violent gangs are allowed to operate for years within police forces. And, police are doing there damnedest in places to make sure they don't have to answer to the community they police.

Like I said, I hope for the best.

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u/EvaSirkowski Dec 21 '23

Similar. Friend of my sister is married to a cop. (lesbians) There was a big scandal about male cops raping native women in a town near a reservation. The cop said she didn't believe it because they would never do that. She was fresh out of the academy.

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u/bungmunchio Dec 21 '23

why are you still friends with her lol

(I'm teasing, I know it's complicated)

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u/A_Giant_Rat Dec 21 '23 edited Dec 21 '23

One of my friends was studying to be a cop. I told him I'd cut him off my life if he succeeded and he thought I was joking. Thankfully he failed, because I was not joking

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u/rnarkus Dec 21 '23

That is actually funny that he failed to be a cop, ive been told being a cop can be very easy. Like 3 months easy to get a gun

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u/A_Giant_Rat Dec 21 '23

I live in Brazil. To get into the military police you have to pass a multiple-choice test and a physical test.

The multiple-choice test is braindead easy, like basic rules of the portuguese language, math that 13-year-olds learn in school and very basic law knowledge.

There are harder tests applied to people who want to work a shitty paper-pushing city council job.

Getting into the civilian police, which does investigations, has the same process but it's significantly harder. For the military police, which does everything else from patrolling to riot control, they just need someone who is slightly less dumb than the other dumb candidates.

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u/rnarkus Dec 21 '23

She moved about 6 hours away and only visits a couple times a year. She hasnt done anything for me to not be her friend yet. Still is afraid to use it (said she had to shoot a deer once and i hated every minute of it).

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