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Longjumping_Vast_797 t1_j8ri7la wrote

A citizen publicly expressed generally conservative views regarding preferential subject treatment in a neutral learning environment....proceeds to get threatened to lose his job.

I'm sorry folks, I know it's easy to pile onto this guy. But, looking at 30 years of police work and scraping to find two stops where he may have treated a male passenger different than a women is, well, a nothingburger. If you're trying to skew someone like this guy as a villain, you need to reassess your outrage.

It wasn't long ago, at all, where the scientific concensus on Trans was "body dismorphia." Don't forget this guy's age. He grew up in a totally different Era, and doesn't subscribe to the new train of theory on the subject.

That's basically freedom of expression.

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whattothewhonow t1_j8sh7tt wrote

Nope.

If my dentist says some ignorant, hateful, transphobic shit I can tell him to fuck himself and go to a different dentist.

If a plumber says ignorant, hateful, transphobic shit I can throw him off my job and have a different plumber finish the work.

If the chief of police says something ignorant, hateful, and transphobic, welp we're stuck with his dumb ass until at least the next election, potentially get harrassment from him and the rest of his armed and unaccountable law enforcement buddies, and worst case he kneels on the back of my neck until I asphixiate.

Public servants must be held to a higher standard, and if they don't like it, they shouldn't be public servants.

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