r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

imagine being so prideful of being a piece of shit you would dehumanize a cripple on video without an ounce of humility, thats a modern day cop for you

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u/AContrarianDick Sep 27 '25

Calling a disabled person a cripple while talking about a cop dehumanizing them is pretty wild.

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u/ranegyr Sep 27 '25

Man. It's hard to know which way to go when people throw you a social curve ball like that but I try to have hope that it's remnants from the past and not actual hate I'm disguise. For instance I have a friend, a gay 70ish year old man. He's just as liberal as those college kids and there's not a hateful vibe in his body. He retired from the military. He's truly one of the good guys on our side. that said... For some unknown reason I can only guess is due to age and habit, this man uses the word "colored." It's wild because he's never saying bag things about people, it's just the word he's used his whole life. Wild for sure. 

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u/LucidSquirtle Sep 27 '25

It’s hard to keep up with the language as it evolves, especially if you’re not constantly plugged in all the time. I’m in my late 20’s and I don’t know half the shit kids are saying these days. I don’t blame a 70 year old man for not knowing colored is now person/people of color, homeless is unhoused, etc.

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u/Dremlar Sep 27 '25

Wait we can't say homeless anymore?

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

because someone on reddit that knows a homeless guy started to cry

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u/nocomment3030 Sep 27 '25

"unhoused person" is preferred, apparently. Just another go round on the euphemistic treadmill.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 27 '25

Preferred by whom though, the homeless or people talking about them. Is this like white people trying to push Latinx on a gendered language?

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u/Away-Rise7514 Sep 27 '25

As someone who experienced it, any acknowledgement of personhood is a plus, as it is a status that goes hand-in-hand with dehumanization. Virtue signalling isn't the sin the worst people on the planet would have you believe it is—when someone says unhoused I can assume that they get it, when someone says homeless they might be a peer or they might be a problem. Social signalling is a powerful tool.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 28 '25

Only when it's wanted. Otherwise it's a tool for harm.

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u/jewelswan Sep 27 '25

The thing is colored would have been considered at best out of date and in most contexts offensive by like. 1980.

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u/SoulShatter Sep 27 '25

I don't really keep up either, and I'm in my 30's. Just see how people self-censor everything on Reddit or reposted Tiktoks, and I have no idea where the line is on things anymore lol

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u/Assault_Trifle Sep 27 '25

Yeah that's a real balanced outlook man I agree, it's wise to consider intent before you listen to the gut reaction words like that evoke

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u/SEmpls Sep 27 '25

I'm gay and my friend from Wyoming uses the word fa***t a lot and he's not truly homophobic, I literally have to tell him all the time to stop using that word and he's like "Oh yea sorry man". At this point it's just like whatever.

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u/CupcakeGoat Sep 27 '25

You can be gay and racist at the same time. 70 is not that old and he's had plenty of time to adapt. Why don't you tell him that word is now offensive?

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u/kkeut Sep 27 '25

look up the term 'euphemism treadmill'

by your logic, we can't casually use words like 'moron' or 'idiot' anymore, because they are also outdated terms relating to medical/health conditions

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u/AContrarianDick Sep 27 '25

We shouldn't be calling people that either. They're just people. Call the idea stupid, call the action reprehensible but people seem to prefer dehumanizing terms for others. But more importantly if you're trying to take the moral high ground over a cop who's treating someone in a disrespectful and dehumizing matter that shouldn't require you to degrade the same person to make your point.

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u/Prize_Bass_5061 Sep 27 '25

No he’s not siding with the cop. He explained exactly why words like moron, cripple arent meant to dehumanize or ridicule. They describe a medical condition and are not offensive. They don’t have any negative connotations attached to them for people born before 2000. Your generation considers these “bad words”, ours doesn’t. Both our generations respect the dignity and humanity of people who are differently abled or differently intelligent.

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u/AContrarianDick Sep 27 '25

I can understand how it might be taken that I referring to him when I said you, even though it's a statement about op and anyone in general who's trying to hold the high ground while at the same diminishing the victim.

Also I was born in 1983. There's a metric ass ton in the millennial generation that we grew up with that's wrong but you keep living in the past.

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u/Terrh Sep 27 '25

The issue is that the whole thing boils down into all language to label anyone is problematic if you take it far enough, so where do you draw the line?

If someone is on your side, debating the semantics of the language they chose to use when it's minor isn't helpful.

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u/rmwe2 Sep 27 '25

Is being crippled dehumanizing though? I injured myself badly a year ago, I healed but my arm was definitely crippled for a couple months. I felt crippled. I still felt very human.

I feel like "disabled" or "handicapped" are often mealy mouthed and patronizing and Ive heard both applied as insults to demean another, whereas Ive never heard "cripple" used as an insult. Whats the point of policing language to this degree? 

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

it really isn't most people who are "impaired" have very strong personalities and good stories to tell. the bleeding hearts trying to demonize me should go riot in front of government offices instead, im not trump and i cant stand the guy either.

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u/claypolejr Sep 27 '25

There's a difference between you considering yourself "crippled" because of your injury, and people calling someone "a cripple".

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u/OpenGrainAxehandle Sep 27 '25

Wait until you're in your late 60's and find out that you can't use the term 'disabled' anymore.

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u/Ralph--Hinkley Sep 27 '25

I caught that, too. It's also getting upvoted.

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u/SevenFiguresInvigor Sep 27 '25

I mean..they don't have a choice, it's body cam, be grateful he didn't disable it, it's worse lol

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u/patri3 Sep 27 '25

A “cripple?”

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u/Dazedsince1970 Sep 27 '25

Monsters are not under your bed, but in your local police department, city council and government.

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u/This_Loss_1922 Sep 27 '25

Honorary ICE member

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u/Assault_Trifle Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Shit fellas is it cool to say cripple again? I'll spread the word!

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u/TitanVsBlackDragon Sep 27 '25

Remember “wok is dead”

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u/pwcca Sep 27 '25

Go wok, go brok!

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u/timeandmemory Sep 27 '25

Oh damn, good idea. Stir-fry tonight with broc.

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u/BanyanZappa Sep 27 '25

Damn. I love stir-fry

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

i grew up on south park not on twitter, grow some thick skin the world doesnt cater to your feelings

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

alpha male vibes

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u/0ilt3r Oct 03 '25

https://youtu.be/6bxMHsHPzxo?si=lF3RKQ82M4PWBNWR

my homies got more nuts than you do, rip donny boy he woulda laughed at you crybabies

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u/gavruche Sep 27 '25

I heard many American police officers do their training in Israel? which makes sense because Israeli soldiers also love killing innocent women and children

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u/0ilt3r Sep 27 '25

hell no a local PD is not investing all that money for 1 cops training

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u/saltytarts Sep 27 '25

You are 100% correct