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In response to "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" by pmb

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.

Posted by colin 🤏 (aka colinski) Nov 20 '20, 09:16

protesters are fighting for something specific. they have their agenda. calling out protesters who got fucked up in the streets by cops as the reason Dems don't have the senate is offensive. i didn't go out night after night and march for a bunch of politicians WHO WERE NOT FUCKING THERE AT ALL to complain it hurt their campaign.

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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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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.

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