Let's not forget that Democrats threw BLM under the bus to appease the landlord class when it was no longer politically expedient to support protests. And how quickly they walked back every "defund the police" promise without even the slightest whiff of resistance.
"Defund the police" pisses me off because it was already a milquetoast downgrade from the real slogan: abolish the police. That was "too radical" and yet the compromise was still disregarded as extreme.
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Let's not forget that Democrats threw BLM under the bus to appease the landlord class when it was no longer politically expedient to support protests. And how quickly they walked back every "defund the police" promise without even the slightest whiff of resistance.
"Defund the police" pisses me off because it was already a milquetoast downgrade from the real slogan: abolish the police. That was "too radical" and yet the compromise was still disregarded as extreme.
It really was wild watching the liberal establishment extinguish the BLM demonstrations in real time.