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qwlauren35

(6,147 posts)
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 01:35 PM Jun 2020

Defund 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.


11 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
I am not black - I think "defund" is a poor choice of words.
5 (45%)
I am not black - I think "defund" is accurate, and no other word is as accurate.
4 (36%)
I am black - I think "defund" is a poor choice of wordsk.
1 (9%)
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 OP
"Person of Color" UncleTomsEvilBrother Jun 2020 #1
I will change it here. qwlauren35 Jun 2020 #3
I chose the second, however Mersky Jun 2020 #2
1. "Person of Color"
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 01:39 PM
Jun 2020

...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."

Mersky

(4,980 posts)
2. I chose the second, however
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 01:43 PM
Jun 2020

It isn’t about accuracy - I’m just not afraid of the term. There’s more to these protests than one word.

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