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If someone doesn’t want to defund the police then I don’t see how they can “agree with the general spirit” unless they want to defund the police. It’s in the na
by Gareth321 5y ago
If someone doesn’t want to defund the police then I don’t see how they can “agree with the general spirit” unless they want to defund the police. It’s in the name. You can equivocate about anything else but not that. Same for anti-work.
I suppose you identified the potential problem here: people inferring that “defund the police” doesn’t actually mean “defund the police” and ascribing softer, feel-good intentions which aren’t there.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoI prefer “stop pouring insane amounts of money into police funding and tasking the police force with fixing issues completely unfixable by a police force and instead redirect some of the ridiculously inflated police funds to appropriate solutions.” But it’s a bit long.
- lanfeust6 5y ago"reform the police" is rather short. Not sufficient?
- hnaccount141 5y agoI guess my point is more that I don't think it's actually that common for people to say they want to defund the police but not mean it. I was thinking more of a case like this: If someone is already outraged about police brutality and they see that a "defund the police" rally is happening, there's a greater chance they'll go as it offers them an opportunity to express their general dissatisfaction with the police regardless of whether they agree 100% with the specific ideology of the organizer. When the headline the next day reads "10000 Attend Defund the Police Rally", this leads to the perception that 10000 people believe in defunding the police when the actual number is much smaller