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Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Pronouns: Whit
by freen 5y ago
Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial.
Pronouns: White people used to call black people terrible things too. Things change.
Cancel culture is a moral panic like the satanic panic and strangers with candy kidnapping. https://kottke.org/22/02/cancel-culture-is-a-moral-panic https://kottke.org/22/02/cancel-culture-is-a-moral-panic
Got more fictions to peddle? GOP introduced bills to make it legal to run over protestors in your car, illegal to teach about slavery, and consider the violent insurrection of Jan 6th “legitimate political discourse”.
- rascul 5y ago> Defund the police: budget allocation. Spend more money on social services so police aren’t the only tool in the govt toolkit. Not controversial. Seems quite apparent to me over the last couple years that it is indeed controversial. Perhaps there wouldn't have been protests, riots, etc. if it weren't.
- freen 5y agoMaybe controversial is the wrong term. In the age of historical low crime, perhaps we allocate resources elsewhere shouldn’t be a radical take. That some folks consider it to be speaks more about them than anything else.
- avs733 5y agoHe means “lied about”. He may not know it but that’s what he means.
- robertlagrant 5y agoPolice never were the only tool in the toolkit; it's disingenuous to say that they were. Here's some feedback on how that woke initiative is going: https://joemiller.us/2021/12/chicago-mayor-who-pushed-80m-defund-of-cops-now-pleads-for-feds-to-save-city https://joemiller.us/2021/12/chicago-mayor-who-pushed-80m-de...