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Colin 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 c
by zepto 6y ago
Colin 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.