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The issue is that it is vague and has several implicit meanings and includes groups that want to divert funding to more community services to aid police, such a
by gmadsen 5y ago
The issue is that it is vague and has several implicit meanings and includes groups that want to divert funding to more community services to aid police, such as mental health crisis units, so police don't have to do things they don't have training for
then you have others that genuinely want to defund police completely, arguing that the institution itself is a vestige of civil war times to protect wealthy white property/slave owners
I believe this is intentional, as it gives extremist a softer platform.
Same can be said about the BLM organization that has an explicit communistic agenda, while the movement is a broad group fighting against police violence and general civil liberties
- pseudalopex 5y agoThere is no Black Lives Matter organization. There is an organization called Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that would like to be seen as the BLM organization. But they have much less influence than local groups and The Movement for Black Lives. Also BLMGNF called themselves Marxist not communist.
- gmadsen 5y agobesides Marxist/communist , that was my point...
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- pseudalopex 5y agoYour point was you shouldn't call it what you did?