This is the real answer. The cop was not under any duress or wasn't defending himself from an attacker nor fearing for his life in any way. There were like 4 cops carrying this girl. He was well protected and completely outnumbered her. She drunkingly open hand smacks him and he retaliates with a close fist right to the face... Uhhh. Yeah that's fucked up. He isn't drunk so he has no excuse as to his disproportional retaliation. I would say the same thing if the drunk person was a dude. A drunk dude wildly swinging should be detained, not propped up on shoulders so his hands are free to keep swinging. These cops are idiots for how they didn't detain the girl and when she goes for a swing, they retaliate like animals.
For instance, it doesn't usually come up at all in places like r/wholesomememes.
r/wholesomememes specifically states and rigorously enforces the rule of not having anything that's not "wholesome", so obviously bigotry, no matter its color is not going to be encountered there and if it is you'll only see it in the form of [deleted] comments or locked posts.
With that in mind, it's not fair to bring that subreddit as proof, similar to other subs (like for example lefty subs or subs specifically targeting women), there are mods who are pretty strict about this.
I used to be of the same opinion as you, but then again you see some folk who get too "happy" and "energetic" at the prospect of revengeful behavior, like a woman hits and she's hit back twice as hard, and then go ahead and dress this kind of behavior as "equality" or "justice".
The more I see it, the more I'm convinced that there are some people who are way into this kind of "thing", and if you look into these people's history and commenting patterns, most often than not you'll find very similar areas of interest.
Reddit wants men and women to be treated equally when it comes to the consequences of hitting someone. It only seems like fetishizing hitting women to people who think women deserve less punishment because of their fragility.
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