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In response to "i like that it's dumb because it requires a sentence to explain. " by colin 🤏

It's dumb because people misunderstand it and it hurt multiple Dems in house races this year when we should have picked up seats. -- (edited)

Posted by ty97 Nov 20 '20, 08:57

It is an awful awful awful awful slogan. Period.

And if Abolish The Police is actually what you want, then you're a severe outlier even on the left.

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see my other message. i'll back that message because the people actually getting hurt by police do. black lives matter was a dumb slogan 5 years ago - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:00 5
- To be clear though, the concept of defunding the police is actually not popular among the African-American community as a whole. And even in the city - pmb Nov 20, 09:13 4
  - absolutely. it is not. but it also was not a Dem slogan. to blame on the ground protesters for Dem losses is pointless and offensive. - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:16 3
    - The problem is that the slogan gets attributed to all dems regardless of whether they run on it. And it's a bad look to have to run against a vocal - pmb Nov 20, 09:20 2
      - Dems have shown unwillingness to work with on the ground activists to even try to do this. Spanburger didn't reach out once to the local - colin 🤏 Nov 20, 09:21 1
        
        They do need to do this, but the activists need to be more sensitive to the messaging and less demanding about defending it. They are hurting their - pmb Nov 20, 09:26

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