Pink badges & pink handcuffs, all meant to grab your attention as we raise awareness and pray for a

[soothsayer]

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Major Good Vibes
@MikePerryavatar
Now cure the cancer of police violence.

Alex Villanueva
@LACoSheriff
Pink badges & pink handcuffs, all meant to grab your attention as we raise awareness and pray for a cure to end Breast Cancer!

Because of Covid, many women have put off mammograms and other cancer screenings.
Photo of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and female deputies at his side all wearing pink badges and pink patches standing in an open hallway. All wearing masks for breast cancer awareness.

[crickets]

1. Make the tasers bright pink. That might actually do some concrete good. nt

[ret5hd]

2. Wait a GD minute!

What about prostate cancer?

Prostate Cancer Matters! PCM!

Because we all know that if you bring focus to one issue you are saying that other related issues don’t matter at all!

[markie]

3. not really appreciated...

they should focus on out of control cops right now...

[flibbitygiblets]

4. All this virtue signaling really pisses me off

How about donating the $ they spent on painting shit pink to, I don't know, CANCER RESEARCH? Or directly supporting cancer victims?

Not to mention, maybe spend some time training cops not to kill people?? And finally, who's going to open the door to talk to someone with a pink badge?

[regnaD kciN]

5. "We need to find a cure for cancer..."

''...so that unarmed people can't die before we get the chance to 'accidentally' kill them."

[crickets]

6. 👆 This.

[Deuxcents]

9. This 👆

[Collimator]

7. It's Interesting That Pink Has Been Chosen As The Signal Color Of Breast Cancer Awareness.

Is it because pink is the signifier color of females in our culture and females have breasts? Or is it because breasts have nipples that mainstream [read: white] culture thinks of as being pink in color?

Barbara G. Walker theorized about why rose quartz is associated with "attracting love" in her book, The Book of Sacred Stones: Fact and Fallacy in the Crystal World. Her view is that the delicate pink hue evokes memories of being cherished at our mothers' breasts thus, the deep-seated association between the color pink and the idea of love. Again, this thinking assumes a default breast color in pink tones.

I bring this up not to be obnoxious or derail the excellent point regarding police brutality as the default experience of Black Americans. (I probably am being just a a little obnoxious and pedantic, ' cause that's my default setting.) I bring it up because rooting out racism can be a long, inner struggle even for people who know better than to hate people for trivial reasons.

Default thinking is all around us and sets us up and continues to confirm narrow definitions. The illustrated hand on the instruction diagram inside the door of a copier machine is white and male and we see the white male as the standard bearer for everyone.

Years ago, I was chatting with some ladies at my church about the eye color of someone's newborn. Would the baby's eyes stay blue or change color? One of the ladies questioned my question. "All newborns have blue eyes", I stated (with my usual pedantic obnoxiousness.) The young Black woman's eyes widened at that and nothing more was said. It was years before I thought about how presumptuous I sounded.

I wasn't being a classic, ugly-hearted racist, but I was so wrapped up in my specific lived experience of the world that I had established a biased default.

So let's hear it for fighting police brutality. ALL lives matter means Black Lives Matter (too), not (Only) Black Lives Matter. And not all nipples are pink. Brown breasts deserve cancer screening and treatment, too.

Moreover, most of the world's babies are probably born with brown eyes and I was an idiot.

[ananda]

8. I have a friend like that. It's so sad.

She let her stomach pain ride until it got so bad
the pain meds weren't helping.

Then she found out she had stage 4 pancreatic
cancer.

I've known her since high school and college.

I really hate Trump and Covid even worse now.