Oh I know about Satanism. I try to advocate for it myself although with much scorn from the people around me. I like to think of it's main purpose as, "If it is truly my fundamental human rights to practice whichever religion, surely I as a Satanist am completely within legal boundaries to marry the same sex, or carry out abortions".
I think it's name is what keeps it from widespread appeal, although you could also argue the naming is a necessity.
I don't get your point though. As an atheist, I don't reject just Christianity, i reject all forms of supernaturality. So i don't know why i would accord any lesser religioun more respect. It's all pseudoscience to me!
This is kinda the problem with this reasoning though. You'd have to admit the police do more good than harm by maintaining some form of societal order and occasional brutality is only some consequence of it.
I'd prefer to live in a world with bastards that maintain order than none at all.
So doing what any normal and intelligent individual would do when faced with interacting with cops? That's not the ACAB I'm used to seeing being paraded on here.
Fair enough. I guess my overarching point is that making generalizing statements like "all cops are racist" or "the victims of cops can't stop being black" are harmful to the discussion considering there are also non-black victims of police brutality.
I feel it's better to say that there's an issue with racism within the police force that needs a solution (which is one of the main points of BLM) rather than resorting to lazy slogans like ACAB that do nothing to further the discussion. The very definition of slacktivism
Unfortunately this isn't a partisan thing. Dispassionate people exist on both sides of the spectrum. You'd at least think the left would be more considerate about this issue though
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