Ask Women on Sidechat | Most minorities especially black people are taught at a young age to be respectful to police. Do you think white parents should teach their kids the same?

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Most minorities especially black people are taught at a young age to be respectful to police. Do you think white parents should teach their kids the same?

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Yes

114 votes

Ask Women 4w

Why are citizens expected to remain completely calm when dealing with law enforcement, but cops can emotionally lash out ?

Anonymous 4w

Obvious nuance but should be stated: black folk aren’t teaching their children to be respectful because it’s “the right thing to do,” it’s because the experiences and interactions of black people and police is something to be feared and avoided. The issue is not that black people “don’t know how to behave,” it’s that law enforcement consistently scrutinizes their behavior to leverage power. Black people (and other minorities) have suffered tenfold at the hands of law enforcement

Anonymous 4w

Conservative don’t make a bad faith argument while misunderstanding racism challenge. Level: impossible

Anonymous 4w

In an ideal world the police would just get more training and be less trigger happy

Anonymous 4w

I dunno. There’s kind of a lot of them in the military. Kinda hard not to.

Anonymous 4w

As a middle class white woman who grew up lower class, I was taught to respect everyone. Not just police. But I was taught that for a different reason than POC were. Their lives are at stake. Only my freedom is.

Anonymous 4w

I’ve never met a single black person who was taught to respect police. Most white people I know were always taught to respect police though.

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Anonymous

#1 4w

It’s happening to white people too now

Anonymous

#1 4w

It’s like fawning, almost. You have to appeal to the mindset to law enforcement, largely deviating from their expected norms, in order to protect yourself. White parents don’t usually teach their children EXACTLY how to behave around law enforcement because their appearance has ever gotten them killed. Everyone should know their rights around police, but BIPOC also have to be more vigilant about mannerisms, behavior, responses, etc.

Anonymous

#1 4w

I think the woman that was killed by ice was simply for bad behavior, she should have never been insulting the officer

Anonymous

OP 4w

Yeah, it is happening to white people, but statistically BIPOC are more likely to face harsher consequences in every step of a legal/law enforcement process. The point I’m making is that black people have to “act right” to be treated better than white counterparts BECAUSE officers have some sort of a halo effect for white people.

Anonymous

OP 4w

But that should never be enough reason to get you killed, be for real. Not liking someone is not valid enough to justify shooting them in the face. Police, ice, law, are supposed to be unbiased, justified, and fair officials upholding the law. Nowhere in the law would “being insulted” justify that. Be so for real

Anonymous

#1 4w

You just said that realize minorities face more experience more discrimination, but when a white woman insults an officer, it’s somehow okay?

Anonymous

#2 4w

It’s mostly a behavior problem, white people think they can get away with being rude and insulting, while minorities can’t do that

Anonymous

#2 4w

Dawg what

Anonymous

#2 4w

The big issue is law enforcement practices and injustice. The woman’s behavior was in no way consistent with what happened to her AND we see this brutality repeated across different law enforcement agencies. HOWEVER, it’s more likely to occur to racial minorities because of the prejudice shown towards them. This prejudice leads to harder scrutiny of their behavior, mannerisms, intentions, etc, thus harsher punishments, instances of violence/brutality, longer sentences (and higher incarceration)

Anonymous

#3 4w

That’s the point of the poll, white people need to be taught to be respectful to authorities just like how minorities are already taught to obey authority

Anonymous

OP 4w

why not "authorities should be taught not to be murderers" instead of "everyone else should be taught to soothe their egos"?

Anonymous

#4 4w

Since when did racial minorities have the power to change attitudes to those who don’t respect them?

Anonymous

OP 4w

they don't, I'm replying to your message immediately previous: "white people need to be taught to be respectful to authorities". I get why POC need to be extra careful, because cops are fucking racist, and obviously I oppose that intensely. we're at the point now where people like you are suggesting that the correct course of action is for everyone to just double down on bootlicking. I think that is clearly not the solution.

Anonymous

#8 4w

gonna guess you could have just stopped typing at "i've never met a single black person"