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It's mostly terrible messaging. Defund and Abolish are both absolute terms (i.e., people try to defund planned parenthood, and we abolished slavery) but, for t
by lostapathy 6y ago
It's mostly terrible messaging. Defund and Abolish are both absolute terms (i.e., people try to defund planned parenthood, and we abolished slavery) but, for the most part, what's being asked for is just to scale back the police and their funding.
- happytoexplain 6y agoI agree it's unfortunate. "Defund", though, I can defend as colloquially non-absolute. Literally it means "remove all funds", but people often use it to mean "reduce funds", I've found. Edit: Of course, that's not to say there are no people using it absolutely in this case.