Many cops do great work. It is also true that, in many communities, cops themselves are most responsible for making the streets *unsafe.* https://twitter.com/DarrenSumo/status/804162338957967360 …
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Replying to @wycats
I am much more inclined to worry about police abuses of power.
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Replying to @BenSpielberg
I think the construction "most <group of people> do good work, but it's also true that <group> can do bad" is problematic.
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Replying to @wycats @BenSpielberg
for example we didn't like it very much when Trump said "and some I assume are good people" for really good reasons.
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Replying to @wycats
Right, but I think that's very different from what I said. I wanted to make the latter point while acknowledging the former.
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Replying to @BenSpielberg
I think the construction is problematic, despite good intentions.
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Replying to @wycats
You think I should have just omitted the first sentence? That's fine, I guess.
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Replying to @BenSpielberg
if it were me, I think I'd "argue from their axioms" and try to use abuse-or-power/small-government language. But it's not.
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;) I have second-hand acquaintances who are cops and all I know is this kind of lang is alienating to good-faith ppl.
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