Swine Swiped
Feb. 20th, 2015 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonI was trying to explain to someone at the gym today that my paradigm regarding law enforcement officers is parallel to the paradigm most conservatives apply to Muslims. Which is while I know that they're not all bad nevertheless they make me nervous when they're in my neighborhood, that the only time I see one on the news is when they're hurting someone or justifying hurting someone, that they demand strict adherence to a set of rules that they themselves don't feel apply to their actions, and they seem to belong to a highly armed cult that would rather demand than earn the respect of the community around them.
Well, of course the 'someone' at the gym replied with a huff that that was a gross simplification of the situation and quite insulting to plenty of hardworking men and women who regularly risk their lives to better serve their community.
Which, I countered, is probably how a lot of Muslims must feel watching the news as the political right try to push for a new 'crusades' in the Middle East based on the actions of ISIL.
The 'someone' laughed and said 'probably so' before going on their way. That this 'someone' was a cop, is no doubt obvious to many of you, as is the fact that my use of black market mood stabilizers and imagination enhancing drugs mark me as a criminal.
Still, I like to think at the gym that we're all equal - cop and real people, Christian and Muslim, Stoner and Square - in that we're desperately fighting the ravages of fat and age.
Okay, that's enough sharing for today.
Well, of course the 'someone' at the gym replied with a huff that that was a gross simplification of the situation and quite insulting to plenty of hardworking men and women who regularly risk their lives to better serve their community.
Which, I countered, is probably how a lot of Muslims must feel watching the news as the political right try to push for a new 'crusades' in the Middle East based on the actions of ISIL.
The 'someone' laughed and said 'probably so' before going on their way. That this 'someone' was a cop, is no doubt obvious to many of you, as is the fact that my use of black market mood stabilizers and imagination enhancing drugs mark me as a criminal.
Still, I like to think at the gym that we're all equal - cop and real people, Christian and Muslim, Stoner and Square - in that we're desperately fighting the ravages of fat and age.
Okay, that's enough sharing for today.