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Abolishing the police is a rather fringe idea though, and it's not the colloquial meaning for "defund the police"(a terrible catch phrase BTW). Representing it
by Rapzid 6y ago
Abolishing the police is a rather fringe idea though, and it's not the colloquial meaning for "defund the police"(a terrible catch phrase BTW).
Representing it as such seams misinformed at best, but likely(IMHO) disingenuous.
- zepto 6y agoColin Kapaernic is probably the best known activist against police brutality towards black people in the USA. He defines it as abolishing the police. I have come across many activists who want to abolish the police. I would assume that most vaguely left leaning people wouldn’t support that as a policy, but it is certainly not a ‘fringe’ definition from the point of view of the activist community with whom it is most associated. There is absolutely nothing disingenuous about recognizing that mainstream activists do mean to abolish the police. We have to accept that both definitions are in use. What is disingenuous, is to dismiss or deny the idea that anyone other than opponents of it think it means abolish the police. That is essentially a motte-and-bailey tactic, and all it does is stop honest discussion.