Motte-and-bailey works as a cheat for stupid online debates. It doesn't work as mass protest. You don't demand something utterly insane+maximalist as your platform as a chant, as a mantra, and then try to tell me "well no we don't really mean *that*." People only hear the slogan.
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"No one really wants to take away your... (rolls dice) police department!"
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Does he know?
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Fair, just bc there are people that want to do the wrong thing (abolish police) doesn’t mean that we should pay attention to dunking on them rather than focusing on the right things — abolishing police unions, ending QI, establishing transparency for officers records, etc
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Then make reform the slogan
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Words no longer mean anything. Didn’t you get the memo?
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Same clowns want us to be Antifa are not fascists.
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Anti-fascists are not pro-fascists. Words matter.
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Guessing the Beverly Hills PD is safe
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