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Originally Posted by rubecube
Hypothetically speaking, if a hard right government somehow got into power in this country and started cracking down on anti-sodomy laws and other laws designed to discriminate against the gay community, do people truly believe that the police wouldn't go right back to raiding gay bars and cracking skulls?
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You live in BC, so I think you know how the local police tend to react to archaic demands from old, fat white men in Ottawa.
Both treating marijuana as a dangerous narcotic and closing down things like the injection sites were ignored. Both the local RCMP and LEOs realized that they had better things to do and that coming down on things like the injection site was backwards and not something that made sense in this day and age.
But you think that all these same officers are just sitting on their hands, and hoping and waiting to get the green light to go beat up some gays? Does this include any openly gay officers who happen to be police now?
Here is the thing that kills this argument. If you agree with BLM that the Canadian police forces around the country, of all types, are already oppressive and abusing power, beating citizens for no real reason, then what is stopping them from just doing all this now?
Also, as for your analogy that you're not letting this guy in who beat up your friends years ago. It's not accurate. That guy who came in and beat up your friends is gone. You're holding this new guy responsible for the sins of his father. And it seems no matter how much he is trying to make amends and show you that he is sorry, it's not good enough because you enjoy nursing this grudge on your teat and don't want it gone.