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> Like how "Defund the Police" means stop paying for and therefore disband police forces. Yeah, I'm going to disagree with you there. It means to reduce the f
by MereInterest 5y ago
> Like how "Defund the Police" means stop paying for and therefore disband police forces.
Yeah, I'm going to disagree with you there. It means to reduce the funding (i.e. defund) the police in the same way that education has been defunded. That doesn't mean that a group is entirely disbanded, rather than the scope gets similarly restricted. When education is defunded, this means that after-school programs get cut, and school lunch programs are reduced. It doesn't mean that the school itself gets shut down. Should police be defunded, it means that extraneous use of police force, such as for mental health checks, are no longer part of the budget. It also means those funds can be shifted to programs specifically designed for mental health checks.
You are assuming that "defund" means to completely remove funding rather than partially remove funding.
- Miraste 5y agoI guess that’s fair, it’s used both ways in different contexts. I most associate the word with its use in universities, in which “x program/department has been defunded” means that it’s gone. There’s only one definition of “open borders,” though.
- MereInterest 5y agoI'd agree there, though with the caveat that there are very similar phrasings that can have differences. I don't often hear people advocating for "open borders", but rather for "more open borders" or to "open up the borders". The former means to have no restrictions on movements between countries, while the latter two mean to have fewer restrictions, but still allow for a non-zero number of restrictions.