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LightningThief posted...

I'd give your entire post a serious, but I know you and your history.

So my post is now to anyone who compares the "Defund the police" slogan with "BLM." The 2 slogans do not compare. One tries to be deep with the word "defund" with some even going so far to argue "abolish" the police..... to mean some deeper meaning of reforming the police. Instead of just saying that cant be twisted like "Fix the Police" or "Reform the Police." The words "defund" and "abolish" does not mean reform or fix.

That doesn't compare to BLM which is much harder to twist the literal words which is simply, "black lives matter" as police were going around killing black lives. One has to intentionally twist it to mean only black lives matter.

This is completely ahistorical. As I already explained, defund does not mean reform, it's the abandonment of reform. You are trying to equate them because the concept of defunding or abolishing the police does not compute to you. But they meant defund or abolish not "fix" and they said so.

Additionally, people did twist the hell out of both reforming police and the meaning of BLM. The pre-2020 arguments were about reform and the battlelines were already drawn. Police were already refusing to police over calls for reform. Republicans were already saying Dems hate cops and want anarchy over calls for reform.

BLM was hated and equated to a radical or hate group in huge swaths of the country, pre-2020. There were vicious arguments over whether BLM was a black supremacist group/slogan on this very board. People called BLM terrorists after every riot. People created Blue Lives Matter and All Lives Matter in response. People suggested that the slogan be changed to Black Lives Matter Too to appease racists who didn't like a focus on black people. Your take is straight up revisionist.