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yaaqov wrote

This is the point I was intending to make. u/RosaReborn more or less expanded on where I was going.

Obviously, the BPP were not apologists for police brutality. But the insinuation of the original post was that all ML(M)s are necessarily, by virtue of their theoretical positioning, complicit in these structural oppressions listed there. My point is that this is absurd and false.

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emma wrote

This is a bad take. Many of the BPP's members were killed by police and/or tortured in prison. Some are still behind bars today. To admit you have little knowledge on the subject, and then suggest they're 'police brutality apologists', comes off as being in bad taste, especially when you consider that standing up to police violence was one of their primary activities.

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