If I rolled around in trash, I don’t think I’d be terribly grateful to sanitation workers for taking my trash away, now would I?
Sanitation workers save countless lives, die in the line of duty much more frequently than cops, and have never to my knowledge been used to terrorize and oppress poor people and people of color.
Do you know how many people would die of typhus, cholera, and other horrible and preventable diseases without sanitation workers? Without sanitation workers we could easily have a resurgence of the bubonic plague because rats would run rampant through our trash filled hell scape cities. We’d have mass infestation of disease carrying fleas brought in by the rats.
We would have epidemics of disease of nigh apocalyptic proportions. Do you know what the world was like pre-sanitation worker? The streets were filled with shit, corpses, food waste, rotting offal of all kinds.
Do you not realize how MIRACULOUS how clean and trash free modern American cities are?
I have complained to the police on multiple occasions, and they did nothing, nothing to catch the burglar who stole all the plumbing from my basement for scrap copper, nothing to catch the flasher who accosted me on a walk (instead they spent 15 minutes laughing and not believing me) and nothing until I identified the culprit (I’d seen his pickup truck) when a large amount of farming equipment was stolen from my parents barn. However they’re perfectly happy to pour a homeless veteran’s PTSD meds down a storm drain and beat the shit out of him.
I have never seen one do a lick of useful work in all my days.
Fuck cops.
Sanitation workers: Literally stopping our streets from being covered in trash. Transporting tons of trash and recycling to appropriate places, allowing us to live the material-focused lives that we all do. (like do y’all want to take everything to the dump and recycling plants yourself?) Known to advocate for labor rights and waste-related environmentalism.
Cops: Instead of checking that our restaurant wasn’t being robbed when the alarm was accidentally tripped yesterday, they harassed our employees and wrecked some shit. My GM recognised one of the cops. He once assaulted a homeless man who was taking too long to get into the car.
Cops are trash and sanitation workers should take them out.
“ die in the line of duty much more frequently than cops” Does anyone have a source for that claim? I’m not accusing you of lying I’d just like to see the source.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2013/04/03/sanitation-worker-garbage-dangerous/
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/10-most-dangerous-jobs-us-1.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-jobs-in-america-2015-5?op=1
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-country-tanks/
http://fee.org/freeman/by-the-numbers-how-dangerous-is-it-to-be-a-cop/
Also you don’t see a whole lot of sanitation workers shooting unarmed people
This is where I feel the need to point out that cops, good ones, are valuable as well. Although I’ve never gotten nervous that I’ll be hassled by sanitation workers.
The police are an institution of state violence founded to maintain white supremacy and the dominance of the ruling class
Sanitation workers, proof masculinity is not toxic.
I mean I think there are versions of masculinity that aren’t toxic, but I think that like honestly the police vs sanitation workers thing is more of a race and class issue than one about masculinity.
I mean obviously the police are posited as hyper masculine which also increases their tendency to recruit macho dickheads
Is sanitation work masculine?
I mean, a vast majority garbage collectors are men, but I can’t find stats on other branches of the field
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