Bad Boys II

[Dill]

(06-22-2020, 10:47 AM)michaelsean Wrote: No it's 100% on the message giver.  There are hundreds of movements.  I'm not investigating what they all really mean.  If I happen to figure it out along the way like I did by reading posts here then great, and if I don't, then the message giver failed if they are in fact trying to get me to their cause. Not because I'm lazy.

Hmmm. There may be "hundreds of movements."  But "defund the police" emerged from a wave of nationwide protests of police killing. It's been the daily subject of every legitimate news source and Fox for weeks now.

That argues for greater attention to that one, out of all those other movements, as it is now connected to the future of the country on many levels.

In this case, there are in fact a lot of "message givers" and not all of them are failing their primary responsibility to explain, including the explainers on this MB.

At this point, when the importance of the movement is obvious to millions of Americans, and there ARE people here and on the news explaining what the movement "really" means, then it is no longer 100% on the message giver.

One reason I say this is because it is now in the interest of those opposing the movement to distort it, to disinform. They look for any bad or incomplete messaging and present that as the essence of the movement (Tucker Carlson is maybe the best at this.)

Another reason is that, yes, there are lazy voters out there who go with soundbites or their first impression. Some don't want defund the police to mean anything but "no police at all" because they prefer strawman arguments. A few go to ridiculous extremes like quoting one dictionary definition of "defund" and arguing the movement therefore HAS to be about removing all police funding, regardless of what those representing the movement say.  It's in the dictionary.