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In reply to the discussion: Trump's troops: The far-right has a tight grip on too many in uniform [View all]Chainfire
(17,757 posts)Apparently you do not know the term Jock has more than one meaning, so here, I will help you out: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jock
Once again, and I will type it very slowly, I did not say that all police or all military are jocks, but I did suggest that many jocks and bullies gravitate toward those two occupations. Your reply indicated that you did not comprehend the difference.
While I appreciate your list of your military heroes, I will not reply with a list of cops, service, or former service people that have gone bad, but names like Calley, McVey and Chauvin certainly meet the urban dictionary definition of "jocks." However, if you want to insist that there is no bullying in the service or the police, you are entitled to your opinion, but I remember the non-coms and officers that were bullies and it really showed when they were the the purveyors of ancient military bullying habit, referred to by Paul Fussel as "chickenshit." Since I doubt you read Fussell in OCS, I will post his definition here. (hint, it didn't stop with the end of WWII)
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, a book by Paul
Fussell offers the most thorough study of it in a chapter called Chickenshit: An
Anatomy.
Fussell describes chickenshit as a term that does not merely imply
complaint about the inevitable inconveniences of military life: overcrowding and
lack of privacy, tedious institutional cookery, deprivation of personality, general
boredom. Rather, chickenshit describes the behaviors that make military life
worse than it need be.
"Petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage
for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised
as necessary discipline; a constant paying off of old scores;
and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
Chickenshit is so calledinstead of horse- or bull- or elephant
shitbecause it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the
trivial seriously."
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