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i also think that dids doesn't understand that snitches are paid money or generally offered something in return for what they do - while stop snitching also covers good samiritans or do-gooders in general, it also covers people looking to profit.
I do, but I think I should have used a different word, because I'm talking much more about the non-criminal context (for the criminal context, I'm always left with a post from a guy on the hip-hop forum I read, which was basically "I'd really like if if people would have talked to the cops about the *******s who killed my cousin.")
Obviously if somebody tells you something in an understood (and not just assumed) confidence, sharing that information isn't cool. I guess my objection is more that there seem to be people for whom "don't snitch/rat/narc/post report/whatever" is an overarching approach and really it's a lot more nuanced- but that's probably more people just flapping their gums and saying silly things than anything they actually believe. I may not have a point.