I agree but saying I don't want to be called a ciss male is not really a slur. It's just him not wanting other people to tell him how he should define himself. Also understanding very much matters because you never know where people are getting their info. Also if someone is calling you something in a fight then it's a good bet they are not using it in away to educate them but to dismiss.
Jason
Would you say the same if he was saying the that about being called heterosexual? Or white? Because both can come up in fights about stuff involving marginalized groups in the exact same spot cis might be used.
In any case, getting worked up about a word that you don't know is stupid. It's like someone who's not a native speaker getting worked up because during an argument someone called them "pal" and clearly that must be a slur!
As my avatar shows, I'm one of the marginalized people, and even though cops have treated me badly in my life (stopped and questioned at 15 on suspicion of looking like a person who'd committed a robbery, arrested in my late 20's because of the accusation of being an arsonist just because my name was found on a piece of paper that I'd thrown out in garbage that was burned in the fire which was set in my own apartment building by somebody else), I don't think that all cops are bastards, nor do I want police departments defunded. What would this actor do if somebody had assaulted him or robbed him, and he wanted to have said person dealt with-would he take the law into his own hands? Or-like anybody else-would he call the police because this person's a threat to public safety?
The religious, yes: the wealthy? I doubt it.
The phrase "All cops are bastards" refers to the simple reality that not all cops have top be
actively horrible to be
complicit. You see it every time an actual good cop speaks out about the bad behavior of his colleagues (
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/what-police-departments-do-whistle-blowers/613687/). You don't make it far in the police force if you're a good cop (
https://www.ktvu.com/news/the-dilem...ing-out-wrongdoing-can-end-an-officers-career and
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/balt...EcnPAcvJh_EyAFgGAYDb_hEHWdNqBifEhGEi1E2U2OYin).
You see it every time when cops as a unit stand besides those that behave reprehensible, like when the entirety of a special police unit quit in solidarity after their colleagues pushed a 75 year old protester to the ground and just left him bleeding from a head wound (
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/buffalo-police-suspension-shoving-man-trnd/index.html). And every time a cop is punished with suspension with pay, so he can return to his post when the heat died down.
If cops are either actively bad, passively bad by not saying anything and therefore complicit, or do say something and are then bullied or removed from the force, that leaves us with all cops being bastards.
As for defunding them, there's good arguments for "unbundling" services that are arguably not tasks armed police officers should be doing in the first place (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police), for example that 21% of police time are spend responding to and transporting people with mental illness. And consequently 1 in 4 people killed by police are mentally ill. So the argument is to take away some funding from the police and put it into a new service with employees who are actually trained to deal with mentally ill people. Or put some funding for the police into social outreach programs to prevent violence and crime, instead of just responding to it. And I can't say I disagree with that argument. I really like this quote (from this article:
https://mises.org/wire/police-departments-are-over-funded-its-all-about-priorities):
With 39 percent of murders unsolved every year, but with SWAT teams being used to deliver warrants to nonviolent suspects, and people who smoke joints on occasion, it's obvious that there is a disconnect between a priorities list that serves police departments, and one that serves taxpayers.
