Defund the police

[GMDino]

(11-13-2020, 02:52 PM)hollodero Wrote: I don't know if that is 100% accurate. First, even I came across quite a lot of people on the so-called left that took the defunding part just as right wing commentators allege, they want to take money away from police as retribution for bad police deeds and that's that. Of course the academic explanation of what it means differs, and sure many who use the term know that. But it's still an awfully chosen term, almost comically awful, and a republican strategist couldn't have wished for a poorer choice of slogan. For of course every Tuckeresque figure will jump on it to paint liberals as crazy people that want to kneecap all police forces. At this point, this isn't so much on Tucker as on the people who wonder why a tiger would chase antelopes. It's the nature of the discourse and the state of things and knowing that and still rolling with this slogan is severe political malpractice.

The term is bad for describing what is proposed.  Claiming that "words matter" is equally bad coming from people who say actions matter more when it comes to their defense of something.  That is what I am saying.