I think the question to ask here is: can someone in the profession use their power for liberating people.
Cops: hell no, best you can do is oppress slightly less or arbitrarily give people a pass
Teachers: there’s entire fields dedicated to making education more liberating.
Doctors: difficult with the for profit medical insurance, but healthcare is a human right and I won’t say actual providers of healthcare are equivalent to pigs
Do modern healthcare and education systems reproduce inequality at large? Any leftist with an ounce of sense will tell you yes. But what system in America doesn’t reproduce inequality? Is there a single one? Hell you can look at the litany of ML and anarchist organizations which are reproduce inequality with chauvinistic leadership and sex pests. Does that mean nobody should form a revolutionary group?
I wonder if maybe we should push others to interpret the “C” in ACAB to be more than just the actual occupation of Cop/Police.
There’s the phrase, “Kill the cop in your head,” that I think is supposed to mean that we’re indoctrinated with the certain ideas that cause oppression and our initial response to things will be as “a cop.”
I don’t think anybody who is pointing out that certain people are trying to do good by being in certain professions is wrong but being a teacher or professor or doctor or psychologist as a job doesn’t automatically “kill the cop in your head”. Horribly, it can give “the cop in your head” a huge amount of opportunity to oppress others.
I think the question to ask here is: can someone in the profession use their power for liberating people.
Cops: hell no, best you can do is oppress slightly less or arbitrarily give people a pass
Teachers: there’s entire fields dedicated to making education more liberating.
Doctors: difficult with the for profit medical insurance, but healthcare is a human right and I won’t say actual providers of healthcare are equivalent to pigs
Do modern healthcare and education systems reproduce inequality at large? Any leftist with an ounce of sense will tell you yes. But what system in America doesn’t reproduce inequality? Is there a single one? Hell you can look at the litany of ML and anarchist organizations which are reproduce inequality with chauvinistic leadership and sex pests. Does that mean nobody should form a revolutionary group?
I wonder if maybe we should push others to interpret the “C” in ACAB to be more than just the actual occupation of Cop/Police.
There’s the phrase, “Kill the cop in your head,” that I think is supposed to mean that we’re indoctrinated with the certain ideas that cause oppression and our initial response to things will be as “a cop.”
I don’t think anybody who is pointing out that certain people are trying to do good by being in certain professions is wrong but being a teacher or professor or doctor or psychologist as a job doesn’t automatically “kill the cop in your head”. Horribly, it can give “the cop in your head” a huge amount of opportunity to oppress others.