Lotta people telling me that this isn't to be taken literally, that it's a call for defunding or reform. That's not quite accurate; read interviews with police abolitionists and there's a weird motte-bailey maneuver on this pointhttps://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/06/police-abolition-george-floyd/ …
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Similarly, this piece has a lot of good ideas on how to decrease the role of police in our lives but ends with "shrink and eventually abolish police." Those are different goals, one much more defensible (politically and substantively) than the formerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/george-floyd-police-funding.html …
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I really appreciate the good faith replies here making the case for police abolition. Lots of good arguments! But the condescending assumption that I had never heard of the idea before today nor read about it before — because I think it's "poorly thought out" — is annoying.
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Talked to a number of people I respect about the framing of the original tweet and I do feel like it was a mistake. It was far too dismissive and then I — ironically — complained about condescending replies. We all send bad tweets sometimes. This was one of mine.
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I have never seen anyone explain convincingly what you do about murder, rape, and assault in a world where there not agents of the state empowered to use force to apprehend the perpetrators
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I'm gonna pretend you have a good faith question: The natural corollary is working together to create a society in which our needs (shelter, food, medicine, clothing, education, etc) are met, communities seek justice through restoration, and our bodies minds and hearts are healed
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actually it's a really longstanding idea with decades of scholarship behind it, including the excellent work of Angela Davis and other really really smart people
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Everyday Americans are also "really really smart people" in understanding what they do and do not need to maintain a sense of security in their own environments.pic.twitter.com/UT8Yp9Ynzh
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