Everyone who has ever said "It’s the status quo that’s radical" was a radical. Wanting a drastic departure from the status quo is the dictionary definition of "radical." If you need to try to change the meaning of words, you are probably losing.https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1199359400194007040 …
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The term's counterproductive because that *is* what the word "privilege" means in English. Try telling low-income African-Americans they're privileged bc they live on stolen Native American land & don't live in, say, Afghanistan. Words have meaning.https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/1201541671957270528 …
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Like redefining "racism" as something other than racial discrimination & prejudice, this is a textbook example of how progressive efforts to remake the language to appeal to woke-academic sentiment works against the ends they claim to desire in persuading ordinary people.
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If you actually want to persuade Americans that a segment of the population faces a chronic injustice, argue that. It won't always work, but historically, it has many times. Telling working-class voters they're privileged is how you talk if you don't care if they believe you.
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And there were Democrats who did say abolish ICE, with those exact words.
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Yeah, Warren had no complaints about how the current incarnation of ICE was functioning, got it
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Strawman. They didn't call for replacing ICE with an agency with substantially the same functions.
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Then that would be Weigel's straw man.
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Coincidentally ICE is an agency that replaced several other agencies with substantially the same functions
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Very much like IRS abolition. I'm a big believer in selling people on the policy endpoint, not the process. The process is just "how". You need a plan to deliver the "how" but you'll be judged on the endpoint.
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