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In reply to the discussion: Just saw Kamau Bell on CNN still defending the phrase "defund the police". [View all]bigtree
(85,987 posts)...people caterwauling about the phrase, advocating genuflecting to republicans over it, aren't helping Democrats politically.
But what's worse is the conscious effort to obscure what advocates are actually saying, what they actually represent. It seems deliberate, to me.
Even when prompted to acknowledge what these Democrats are actually advocating, there's a curious deflection away from the substance and specifics of the policies they're fighting for.
These are Democratic communities being lectured down to by people who don't live there. Critics of the phrase should be challenged to state the details of these policies, or just admit they're not really supporting these communities with their petty, paternalistic, intimidated politics over a phrase - which, incidentally, mirrors the effort being put forward by the opposition to misrepresent the Democratic initiatives.
When are these critics going to show more solidarity with these communities than they are with republican opposition to this phrase?