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THE POLICE PROBLEM
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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Sure, but do schools carry such material even heterosexual? And no, this is not the same as learning anatomy.
Not sure if they do, but I don't think it would be inappropriate. They (hopefully) already had proper sex-ed at this point and any explicit image showing how consent and sex beyond penetration looks like are in my opinion very welcome.
Also, would you have less problem with it being heterosexual?
Stephen King’s IT was in my middleschool library, go fuck yourself.
I had READ a myriad of descriptions of hererosexual relationships by the time I was entering high school, it’s EVERYWHERE. Couple that with an overabundance of shitty people who think the sexuality of others is their business, and it was a REAL fucking struggle to figure out how/why I don’t fit into every single portrayal of a relationship I’ve ever seen.
Let's be honest here, most kids at that age have already seen porn. I saw porn as a kid far before I got a proper sex ed.
Not making sex out to be such a shameful thing to be hidden away would be very beneficial. It took me years to properly understand sex the way I do now, and in such a way for it to suit me. Before then I had a lot of weird preconceived notions that were not helpful at all.
Sex is natural and normal, what's the point of turning it into such a big thing that needs to be hidden away? Especially when most kids at that age start to have sexual feelings. It's better to provide them a safe and open environment, as well as making sex just be a normal thing, than basically force kids to get their information elsewhere and experiment without knowledge about consent etc.
Yeah, so did pretty much all adults that are working, yet porn is not allowed at most workplaces.
Ever heard of the term "educational setting"? You can also neither use copyrighted works at your workplace, but you can in an educational setting.
There is a big difference between, you know, a space specifically designed to teach kids about all they need to know about the world (including the things you find gross), and a place with an agreed upon environment by the participants to perform a specific task. Not to mention that, yeah, some organizations or places of work do indeed deal with sexual things.
I don't even know why you bring in the workplace honestly, it's completely irrelevant, as its a completely different environment. Neither would it be appropriate for most workplaces to hold a seminar about world war 2 now, would it?
It is extremely relevant. Are you saying I'm not allowed to talk about porn at work with other adults, but a teacher can talk about porn in their workplace? .... WITH CHILDREN?!?! It is not like we already don't have news about sexual abuse coming from teachers.
What the fuck are you smoking? What kind of mentally deranged mind thinks a blow job needs to be in the curriculum? Even if you think a blow job is important for your child, because "it is a great career choice and a way to climb the ladder", it is not something one can't learn on their own. It is not exactly a rocket science.
At least try to make a reasoned out argument instead of an emotional attack.
Demystifying and normalizing sex is not a bad thing. Why should we be ashamed of it and our bodies? Making sex out to be such a shameful thing to be hidden away caused far more damage to me than sex positivity ever did. And it's not like it stops sexual abuse either, because, well.. how does a child knowing less cause there to be less sexual abuse? Abusers thrive on ignorance.
I think they do now. It's a less shameful time and not really inappropriate. I grew up in the 80s-90s so the library wasn't the free for all it was decades earlier. People had already started to treat it as a political battleground.
That said, we were given SexEd starting in 4th grade, so a book with mild sexual content (the book isn't pornagraphy) 3-4 years after that, is very appropriate, since everyone with access to the text would have already have prerequisite knowledge to understand the context of the book.
Honestly, I wish things like this were more common in my youth. Whenever they would ask if people had questions and let us submit them on paper anonymously, there probably would have been more discussion.
Exactly. :)
Any questions any kid has about growing up, certainly including questions about their bodies and sexuality, should be easily answerable from an open shelf at the school library.