(06-08-2020 12:33 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-08-2020 12:07 PM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(06-08-2020 11:52 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  At the risk of a conservative trying to explain liberal thinking, I have seen some explanations that "defund the police" doesn't literally mean abandoning all law enforcement but instead depriving police departments of the resources to address petty crime under the "broken windows" theory, which reduces crime but perhaps not as much as advertised and increases interactions with the police which obviously results in more incidences of abuse, even if they remain statistically rare. And divert that funding to blight remediation of abandoned buildings and overgrown lots.

There seems to be a lot of linguistic slipperiness going around lately. In just the last few days I have seen articles on Facebook purporting to explain that:
"peace" means something different from "peace"
"racist" means something different from "racist"
"defund" means something different from "defund"
Weren't we told earlier that "abolish ICE" means something different from "abolish ICE"?

It sure doesn't help the notion of public discourse.

"systemic problem" means 9 instances.

Meanwhile, there are those who insist that "Anti-Fascist" really does mean "anti-fascist". Strange times!