• halvar@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’m not from America, but I thought I had a pretty good understanding on some of these issues. Turns out I only got the memo for “defund the police” meaning “abolish the police”.

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      2 months ago

      It did/does. It was used by activists because the message could not be co-opted by corporate marketing, like Black Lives Matter did. Defund and Abolish have very explicit meanings. It never began watered down like this revisionist person is saying.