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In reply to the discussion: Buttigieg's first scandal: "all lives matter" [View all]sfwriter
(3,032 posts)36. He said a friend told him, mistakes aren't good, but
...it is to your credit not to make the same ones.
His response shows this: "It should enhance not diminish the value of a good police department when we assert what should go without saying, but in these times must be said clearly and again and again: that black lives matter, Buttigieg said. So, a national agenda on criminal-justice reform means not only enhancing policing in a more racially just way not only challenging discriminatory practices and existing laws but addressing the harm done by things like the decade-long war on drugs. It means reversing and recognizing the harms of mass incarceration."
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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Fascinating. You join du two days ago and already tearing a Dem candidate down.
Tipperary
Apr 2019
#1
No. We are not republicans. And I will not help you tear down other Dem candidates.
Tipperary
Apr 2019
#6
Absolutely. I won't put out a post and then title it 'first scandal' like like this person did,
SWBTATTReg
Apr 2019
#34
that article, btw, links to screed by a known Clinton hater (Nathan J. Robinson) as 'evidence'
Celerity
Apr 2019
#18