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> If the movement were "Demilitarize the police", then yes, that is absolutely something I could be in favor of. It is. Great that you support it. > As it sta
by diffeomorphism 6y ago
> If the movement were "Demilitarize the police", then yes, that is absolutely something I could be in favor of.
It is. Great that you support it.
> As it stands, "Defund the police" is to me a weasel word version of "Abolish the police"
So you understood the phrase wrong and now you know better.
TLDR: You support it but don't like the wording of the slogan.
- roenxi 6y agoThere is a real risk in politics that people mean literally what they are saying. There is a situation where a group of people have together under the slogan "defund the police". There is a very high risk that if they get the power to do something they will, literally and only, defund the police. Not many people are reading policy documents. The point of unity in politics is usually the literal meaning of the words being used. Secret signals of "really we meant this other thing" tend not to work.
- diffeomorphism 6y agoThere is nothing "secret" or "other thing" about it. You seem to think that "defund" secretly means "abolish". It doesn't. It means defund.
- roenxi 6y agoDefund can easily mean abolish; there isn't really a feasible way to run a police force if they can't pay salaries. It is a literal reading of the phrase and in line with what some (hopefully a tiny minority) of protesters have been asking for.