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Related: About this forumDefund the Police.
Since this is a safer place, I thought I would start the same poll.
I know that there are a lot of people here who are sick of going to GD. But I think GD needs to see our opinion.
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I am not black - I think "defund" is a poor choice of words. | |
5 (45%) |
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I am not black - I think "defund" is accurate, and no other word is as accurate. | |
4 (36%) |
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I am black - I think "defund" is a poor choice of wordsk. | |
1 (9%) |
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I am black - I think "defund" is accurate, and no other word is as accurate. | |
1 (9%) |
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Defund the Police. (Original Post)
qwlauren35
Jun 2020
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UncleTomsEvilBrother
(954 posts)1. "Person of Color"
...and African American are not interchangeable terms, especially in the sense of police brutality and the murder of Black citizens.
Asian Indians, a group who does "financially well" in the United States, may not have the same approach to police brutality as African Americans would; however, technically, both groups are "People of Color."
qwlauren35
(6,278 posts)3. I will change it here.
I will change it to black and not-black.
Mersky
(5,262 posts)2. I chose the second, however
It isnt about accuracy - Im just not afraid of the term. Theres more to these protests than one word.