Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.

he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.

Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.

His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.

Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.

After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.

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  • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I disagree. For a woman, sucking a “cock” is a degrading experience as well. A “removed” is a sex slave regardless of gender. Nobody sucks a “cock” because they enjoy satisfying male sexual desires. They do it for money or social acceptance. It is insulting someone by saying they are oppressed economically or socially to the point of prostitution. This is why it is a problematic insult.

    • Abracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      A “removed” is a sex slave regardless of gender. Nobody sucks a “cock” because they enjoy satisfying male sexual desires. They do it for money or social acceptance.

      that attitude is a big part of understanding removed as a pejorative, but it’s also not true.

      • Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        Oral sex can be done out of love and/or mutual enjoyment. “Sucking cock” implies a power imbalance. The cock owner exploits the sucker for their own gratification with little or no regard for the sucker’s wants or needs.

    • Nationalgoatism [any]@hexbear.net
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      Nobody sucks a “cock” because they enjoy satisfying male sexual desires

      I-was-saying

      Why do you find the idea of pleasuring a sexual partner degrading? To me at least, trying to make each other feel good and to satisfy each other’s desires is just a central part of having sex.