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Maybe I was not savvy enough to detect that “defund the police” was actually a call for privatization. What many people rightly identified at the time was a nee
by janalsncm 4y ago
Maybe I was not savvy enough to detect that “defund the police” was actually a call for privatization. What many people rightly identified at the time was a need for reallocation of police funds to things like social workers.
All of the increases in social problems we’ve seen in the last 40 years are the tax that we pay for increasing wealth inequality.
- n8cpdx 4y agoImagine calling for “defund the NHS” and not expecting private alternatives to spring up. This is a completely predictable outcome and reveals a lack of systems/second order thinking on the part of activists. The defund crowd imagined that if you just got rid of police, you’d get rid of all of the deep-rooted social issues that policing brings to light. If only it were so.