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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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That’s a lot of words to say:
ACAB
I think its a bit rude to say that to someone who told their story like that. All cops are bastards, of course.
Their detailed anecdote relating their relevant personal experience is infinitely more valuable and appreciated than your flippant acronym.
That flippant acronym represents a million such stories and worse, world wide. It's a reminder of the conflict.
You want to think you're copping flack for ACAB. You're not. You're copping it for your unnecessarily arseholish dismissal of the story.
It's not a dismissal mate.
"That's a lot of words to say" very much reads as one