I dislike the Defund the Police slogan for the opposite reason: It is far too easy for useless spineless liberals to "um actually" it down into pointlessness. "We don't actually want chaos and anarchy, we love the police, we just think they should be better trained so they can get by without so much equipment!"
Fuck that. Abolish the police. No compromise. I won't be happy while there is a single cop left in the country.
I'm with you. Slogans like "abolish the police/cia/fbi" seem like crank politics in the current context, but consider that until about a hundred years ago "votes for women" was seen as crank politics in much of the world. You have to introduce radical ideas to people, and you have to understand that it will take some time for those ideas to catch on - but eventually you reach a tipping point where so many people are saying it that it's not a radical idea anymore.
Libs who complain about the slogans of radicals are just trying to be tactful in saying that they don't support that goal. "Oh of course I don't like it when innocent people are gunned down by government death squads, but I don't want to get rid of the death squads entirely!"
I dislike the Defund the Police slogan for the opposite reason: It is far too easy for useless spineless liberals to "um actually" it down into pointlessness. "We don't actually want chaos and anarchy, we love the police, we just think they should be better trained so they can get by without so much equipment!"
Fuck that. Abolish the police. No compromise. I won't be happy while there is a single cop left in the country.
I'm with you. Slogans like "abolish the police/cia/fbi" seem like crank politics in the current context, but consider that until about a hundred years ago "votes for women" was seen as crank politics in much of the world. You have to introduce radical ideas to people, and you have to understand that it will take some time for those ideas to catch on - but eventually you reach a tipping point where so many people are saying it that it's not a radical idea anymore.
Libs who complain about the slogans of radicals are just trying to be tactful in saying that they don't support that goal. "Oh of course I don't like it when innocent people are gunned down by government death squads, but I don't want to get rid of the death squads entirely!"
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