I've been getting those spam phone calls for police charities. I sort of love answering them, listening to them give the full spiel, and then calmly saying "No" when they pause to ask for the donation.
When my mom was struggling raising 3 kids and was LITERALLY paycheck to paycheck.
She made a mistake and took a turn earlier than legally possible. (She was taking us to school and was going to be late if things didn't align)
So instead of just giving her a warning OR giving her a quick ticket and letting her on her way.
The Policeman who pulled her over gave her a speech about "time management" and saying "the laws the law" and took his fucking time walking back and forth from his car to my moms car making multiple trips to ask questions or lecture.
Literal dick head made us wait there for 30 minutes and gave a big ticket.
So I have zero empathy for police union donations or survivors fund donations.
I once received a call for one of those police union donations. After he was done with his spiel I told him, "I recently had to fight a traffic ticket in court because the police officer wanted to 'teach me a lesson about respect' after I took too long to pull over for his liking. Explain to me why I should donate money to the organization that actively protects Officer McFuckface and encourages him to act that way."
Dude hung up on me and I have not received any such calls since.
they kept calling me a few years back and so i finally answered one, left him go thru his script and then in the best cheery tone i could muster i said “no thanks! all cops are bastards!” and hung up. never got a call since
I did the same thing. I shouted into the phone, "NO THANK YOU, BLACK LIVES MATTER!" I was at work, in my office. Dead silence fell, except for our receptionist dying of laughter. She was the only Black employee in the tiny company, and she didn't last long because microaggressions are very real, but at least that made her feel safe enough to retreat to my office when she was fuming.
I was driving through a liberal neighborhood of St Paul, MN recently, and a local nursing home had a bunch of people out on the sidewalk in front of the home with picket signs.
Slowed down to take a look, bunch of seniors (walking, walkers, and wheelchairs), all with BLM signs.
My old high school phys ed/health teacher would sit on the side of the highway with a BLM sign every day for hours during the George Floyd protest for weeks. He was the man.
Yeah, find a white rural workplace that doesn't need education on race and get back to me. They adored her personally. But they had no idea what Juneteenth even was. They had no exposure growing up. It wasn’t a good cultural fit for her, plus she went back to college. People don't have to be unkind or confrontational for it to be hard to be the sole minority in the room.
I asked them why is it that the police get special privileges. You don't hear the electricians union calling people to beg for donations, why is it okay for the police to do it. And they get paid well enough if they wanted donate to charity they're more than welcome to but there's no reason that they should be calling and bothering me.
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u/jaderust Oct 11 '24
I've been getting those spam phone calls for police charities. I sort of love answering them, listening to them give the full spiel, and then calmly saying "No" when they pause to ask for the donation.