Or even if your kid is white but goes to school with black kids. I don’t want him living in a different reality than them. He’s going to have to know cops aren’t always good, and we’ve started explaining already. He’s 3 and they have already sent copaganda coloring books home, really alarming shit.
I have been toying with the idea of writing a children’s book about this, and one about comparative religion for toddlers (your grandmother’s Jesus stories are just stories, kiddo) but publishing children’s books is hard even if they’re not controversial, so, no that won’t be happening.
The rules are decided by democracy take it up with society or go find a king to rally behind. And we have the court system to ensure that cops who don’t follow the rules are held accountable.
Actually hard to explain to kids
Kids have a simplistic worldview. “They catch bad guys” is probably enough.
The truth of course is pretty different… But I don’t think they have the context needed to understand that.
But then again if you just say that then you won’t have a kid this cool:
It’s simple enough unless you have brown skin. Then unfortunately you need to have a deeper conversation from a much younger age.
Or even if your kid is white but goes to school with black kids. I don’t want him living in a different reality than them. He’s going to have to know cops aren’t always good, and we’ve started explaining already. He’s 3 and they have already sent copaganda coloring books home, really alarming shit.
I have been toying with the idea of writing a children’s book about this, and one about comparative religion for toddlers (your grandmother’s Jesus stories are just stories, kiddo) but publishing children’s books is hard even if they’re not controversial, so, no that won’t be happening.
What were they about
Teaching kids words like “suspect” and “officer” and “stun device” (not kidding). Meant to teach kids that cops are friendly.
His mom looked it up, and the cop who “wrote” the book has been charged with spousal rape, so, yeah.
I’ve been having more nuanced discussions with my white kid since he’s been asking too (8 yo) It’s important for everyone to know.
Then again my dad taught me the same, he got tear gassed protesting Vietnam and was harassed for having long hair in the 70s.
I mean, we don’t want to lie to kids.
True. I don’t have kids. What’s the best way?
I mean in an emergency not caused by the police, they’re probably who you want kids to turn to.
In other situations not so much.
If I had a little girl, I would absolutely not be teaching her to trust cops
“So there’s this political concept called ‘a monopoly on violence’…”
They are here to enforce the rules.
When they grow up, you can explain how rules are made to fuck the poor.
There are bad people in the world these brave men and women are here to protect you from the bad men and women.
Seems pretty simple to me.
All cops are bad people?
Yes
Ohh no people enforcing the rules of society as decided by democracy.
Unfortunately, the rules aren’t very good, and unfortunately they dont even abide by the rules that are good.
The rules are decided by democracy take it up with society or go find a king to rally behind. And we have the court system to ensure that cops who don’t follow the rules are held accountable.
And you think that’s what happens?
Yeah if u want a recent example go check out what’s been happening in afromans life
That’s a completely tangential thing. They failed in their lawsuit against Afroman, but they’re not in any way being held accountable.
Were you lying on purpose or did you really not understand what that lawsuit was about?
The rules decided on by rich cishet white men to primarily benefit other rich cishet white men? Get bent.
So u don’t like democracy what do u want instead? A king? A fascist dictatorship? Please enlighten me as to what we should have instead of democracy.
Well I don’t remember voting for our boys in blue!
U votes for a representative who selected them. U can vote for any representative or even run urself. That’s how representative democracy works.