Well, people are going to bicker about slogans and terminology, and whether doing something about the police will help their party or not.
Fine.
If Derek Chauvin doesn't go to prison, Minneapolis is going to burn. If that psycho who murdered Breonna Taylor doesn't go to prison, Louisville will burn.
Those who maneuver every situation so it just so concludes that the current status quo has to be maintained might as well light the match. People have had it, and don't care whose ox is gored.
We can either dismantle the system of violence, racism and corruption; or that system is going to have to resort to mass murder to stay intact. Which they'll eagerly do. The American people are done with this, and don't care about the rationalizations put forward by partisans.
"For everyone still belly-aching and concern trolling over a slogan used by racial justice activists protesting against police brutality and murder,"
No, what we want is for ostensible proponents of police reform to not push a slogan that actively drives people away. This isn't about "methods of direct action", and proponents of a crappy slogan shouldn't flatter themselves that they are being boldly heroic by making a good cause sound bad.
Those of us honest enough to call a bad slogan for what it is, have been in favor of the Portland protests all along; we've supported them with our words and our dollars, and even marched in our own towns. We're very much behind the cause. We just hate that DTP proponents are putting the veneration of their slogan above the well-being of the movement.
That's not "concern trolling". That's wanting the cause to succeed, and trying to take down the barriers to its success ... a needlessly off-putting slogan being one of them.
I saw "defund the police" become popular after other attempts at reform failed or were blocked by police unions. I hear it as a cry of desperation: "fine--if you won't follow the rules, then we'll resort the only power left to us, the power of the purse."
I see an analogy in the slogans of the Black Panthers. Scared the shit out of white people but that’s because it’s impossible to put yourself in the shoes of a person of color.
Yes, concern trolling. Mr. White Moderate who doesn't have to ever worry about being murdered by police telling Black activists who do have to worry about being murdered by police that they're protesting wrong because white moderates don't like a slogan and willfully misrepresent what it means.
Kat Cammack should have been there when my crew and I were trying to get a traction splint on an accident victim's femur while a state trooper was screaming at me to get the victim's wallet out of his back pocket so the trooper could see his driver's license. I took off my vest, handed it to the trooper and said, "Here you go. You are now Incident Commander. You now have the authority to ORDER me to get this guy's wallet. You also now have the liability if anything goes wrong." He decided that discretion was the better part of authority.
"Overhaul the Police"?
Well, people are going to bicker about slogans and terminology, and whether doing something about the police will help their party or not.
Fine.
If Derek Chauvin doesn't go to prison, Minneapolis is going to burn. If that psycho who murdered Breonna Taylor doesn't go to prison, Louisville will burn.
Those who maneuver every situation so it just so concludes that the current status quo has to be maintained might as well light the match. People have had it, and don't care whose ox is gored.
We can either dismantle the system of violence, racism and corruption; or that system is going to have to resort to mass murder to stay intact. Which they'll eagerly do. The American people are done with this, and don't care about the rationalizations put forward by partisans.
Same here.
"For everyone still belly-aching and concern trolling over a slogan used by racial justice activists protesting against police brutality and murder,"
No, what we want is for ostensible proponents of police reform to not push a slogan that actively drives people away. This isn't about "methods of direct action", and proponents of a crappy slogan shouldn't flatter themselves that they are being boldly heroic by making a good cause sound bad.
Those of us honest enough to call a bad slogan for what it is, have been in favor of the Portland protests all along; we've supported them with our words and our dollars, and even marched in our own towns. We're very much behind the cause. We just hate that DTP proponents are putting the veneration of their slogan above the well-being of the movement.
That's not "concern trolling". That's wanting the cause to succeed, and trying to take down the barriers to its success ... a needlessly off-putting slogan being one of them.
I saw "defund the police" become popular after other attempts at reform failed or were blocked by police unions. I hear it as a cry of desperation: "fine--if you won't follow the rules, then we'll resort the only power left to us, the power of the purse."
I see an analogy in the slogans of the Black Panthers. Scared the shit out of white people but that’s because it’s impossible to put yourself in the shoes of a person of color.
Yes, concern trolling. Mr. White Moderate who doesn't have to ever worry about being murdered by police telling Black activists who do have to worry about being murdered by police that they're protesting wrong because white moderates don't like a slogan and willfully misrepresent what it means.
The best part is that THEY don't know what they mean!LOL!
Thank you!
That is a great slogan and goes to the heart of the need for reform: Demilitarize the Police!
I personally like Fire The Murderous Fuckers but realize this would not be warmly embraced.
That was the Osmond's song, which is incorrect as the opposite is true.
Yes, neo as a prefix means new, so a new liberal? Or do they mean pseudo? As in false?
Kat Cammack should have been there when my crew and I were trying to get a traction splint on an accident victim's femur while a state trooper was screaming at me to get the victim's wallet out of his back pocket so the trooper could see his driver's license. I took off my vest, handed it to the trooper and said, "Here you go. You are now Incident Commander. You now have the authority to ORDER me to get this guy's wallet. You also now have the liability if anything goes wrong." He decided that discretion was the better part of authority.
Not all first responders are created equal.
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When you say localities you mean taxpayers, right?
Exactly.