A reasonable case but far overstated and undernuanced. It’s true that there are plenty of ultra-wealthy people with Black Lives Matter signs on their yard and

A reasonable case but far overstated and undernuanced. It’s true that there are plenty of ultra-wealthy people with Black Lives Matter signs on their yard and post hashtag-defund-the-police. But there are also public defenders from non-privileged backgrounds and social workers who argue the same thing and often more forcefully. Police funding reform isn’t something that was invented by white elites. It’s borrowed from activist communities. I’m sure for some it’s a way to indicate their more aesthetic opposition to the law-and-order authoritarian movements in the US today. But police reform is a broad-based movement even if it’s coming from the most educated segments of privileged and less-privileged people. (Personally, I suspect in 20 years everyone will claim to have been for it.) We should also note that there are also zillionaires who are actively defunding the welfare state. Would the author agree this is a costly display, to declare you’re wholly self-made and spend real effort kicking away supports that many people need to survive? Or is just liberals who engage in ideological peacock feathers?