It's like the orange man and whether you take him seriously or literally argument that many of his defenders used. When the defund movement had people marching

It's like the orange man and whether you take him seriously or literally argument that many of his defenders used. When the defund movement had people marching with ACAB & abolish posters regularly, it's hard to argue it meant anything else. A thought exercise for the word re-definers defending the term: If your CEO walked on stage and said "we are defunding __" where __ is the division you work in.. would you be like "oh good it means I'm going to work on better stuff now" or "oh shit let me get my resume up to date". We can make lots of arguments like "they chose the wrong word" but I don't think we should argue that the word means something else just because it helps the slogan make more sense.