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> You are also misrepresenting or misunderstanding dismantling of the police. It's not necessarily about using less resources in the neighborhoods, but about us
by twblalock 6y ago
> You are also misrepresenting or misunderstanding dismantling of the police. It's not necessarily about using less resources in the neighborhoods, but about using them correctly.
How about this: if you don't want to dismantle something, then don't use the word dismantle. Perfectly good words already exist for what you suggest, such as reform.
If you say dismantle you should expect people to interpret it as its plain ordinary meaning: to take apart, to destroy, to get rid of, to make it not exist anymore.
- matsemann 6y agoTo be fair I've heard most people talking about a reform. The word dismantle was used by the other poster first, probably to skew the point by using a differently loaded word.