10 Dezember 2006


Had Germany not been defeated in World War II, they would probably have a Nazi government to this day. At some point the government would likely have been forced to adopt a public relations campaign to sanitize its image as an anti-semitic state, to show, in short, that the portrayal of Nazis as prejudiced, blood thirsty murderers is a stereotyped and harmful caricature. Kinda like the Republicans showed everyone that they really think that black people are OK.

To do this the state media would have to produce a series of short documentaries to show the truth about Nazis, that they're really just good, simple guys trying to do a tough job.

Luckily, you don't have to visit an alternate-history universe to watch this, because there is a TV show called "Cops" that is nearly the same thing. But what's really great about Cops is that it can't conceal the real nature of what the police do--put poor people and people of color in prison.

Almost everything that happens on the show is folks getting busted for having small amounts of drugs in their possession, or getting beaten for disobeying a cop's orders. What never fails to amaze me is the total shock that the police seem to feel when someone disobeys them... they just can't believe that this guy tried to swallow his weed before they could search his car (with no reasonable cause.) And yet the show has the arrogance to presume that once you see it, you won't really hate the cops for locking people up for no fucking reason and grabbing them by the neck and barking orders at them. Just doing their jobs.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonym said...

i'm trying to imagine your dad on cops. somehow he's squeezing garlic through a press in every scenario.

3:56 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

you should shop this idea to the food network. i happen to know that my dad is available for any position that can out bid chicago police department. cross over!

2:42 PM  

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