Why is it O.K. to say that you're ALL upstanding citizens who always do the right thing every time no matter what, but not O.K. to say that you're ALL a bunch of donut-eating, wife-beating,gun-toting glorified gangsters?
2007-07-30 17:37:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
YODA - I'd rather be called what I am; not what I'd like to think I am, or what other people who don't really know me think that I am.
2007-07-30 17:45:05 · update #1
Would you rather be called an upright citizen or a weasel?
2007-07-30 17:39:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it would be a naive individual to say that we are ALL upstanding citizens...
Having said that, I can't think of a single circumstance where it's okay to call an entire group of ANY type wife beaters or glorified gangsters....
It would be like me making a broad inaccurate statement about all the negative posters in this category....wouldn't it mate?
2007-07-30 19:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by forrest7309 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you like it if I stereotyped you as a flaming idiot who's rants are unintelligent babbling crap? Or would you rather me say that you are an upstanding citizen that promotes excellent ideologies and articulates themselves very well? No one will agree to someone thats down talking them. Oh and just so your ego isnt all blown up at the moment, I used that second bit about upstanding citizen blah blah blah just as an example. Anyone can see that its actually the first description that fits you perfectly
2007-07-30 22:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by woodchipper890 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aren't you being a Stereo Type?
My Father has never claimed to be a perfect citizen, nor is he a Donut-Eating, Wife Beater.
2007-07-30 17:52:36 · answer #4 · answered by Gump023 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Neither one is okay. Some of us are good all the time just as well some of us beat their wives and eat dough nuts. I for one have never hit my wife or like dough nuts but I have a gun that I use for hunting and for my job. Why is it that everyone that gets mad that they get arrested blame it on the police as a whole?
2007-07-30 17:45:35 · answer #5 · answered by Steven C 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Probably for the same reason you don't object to positive stereotypes of yourself as much as negative ones. You don't want people to think of you as a donut-eating, wife-beating egomaniac, do you? Of course not.
2007-07-30 17:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Get a life, already!
If you don't like Police Officers, go someplace else!
2007-07-31 00:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by mebe1042 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't worry about what other people think of me. I know who I am.
2007-07-31 05:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know many cops and not one of them seems to me like he thinks he's perfect.
Sounds like you've been arrested one too many times and have a beef with the cops....
2007-07-30 17:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by class act 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Two types of poeple in this country. Citizens and dirtbags. Obvious which one you are.
2007-07-30 17:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by Vindicaire 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋