{"id":125869,"date":"2020-12-04T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/on-defund-the-police-obama-clearly-right-squad-is-wrong\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T03:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:31:47","slug":"on-defund-the-police-obama-clearly-right-squad-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/on-defund-the-police-obama-clearly-right-squad-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"#On ‘defund the police,’ Obama clearly right \u2014 Squad is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#On ‘defund the police,’ Obama clearly right \u2014 Squad is wrong<\/strong>”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies are assailing former President Barack Obama for saying \u201cDefund the Police\u201d is a bad slogan and bad policy.<\/p>\n

Obama told an interviewer<\/a> that if \u201cyou believe, as I do, that we should be able to reform the criminal-justice system so that it\u2019s not biased and treats everybody fairly, I guess you can use a snapp<\/a>y slogan, like \u2018Defund the Police,\u2019 but, you know, you lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you\u2019re actually going to get the changes you want done.\u201d<\/p>\n

His alternative? To say: \u201cLet\u2019s reform the police department so that everybody\u2019s being treated fairly. .\u2009.\u2009. And if there was a homeless guy, can maybe we send a mental-health worker there instead of an armed unit that could end up resulting in a tragedy. .\u2009.\u2009. Suddenly a whole bunch of folks who might not otherwise listen to you are listening to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you want to actually get something done,\u201d he asked, \u201cor do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?\u201d<\/p>\n

AOC\u2019s Squad answered that conclusively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole point of protesting is to make people uncomfortable,\u201d she tweeted, and \u201cactivists aren\u2019t PR firms for politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a slogan but a policy demand,\u201d added Rep. Ilhan Omar.<\/p>\n

\u201cLives are at stake daily so I\u2019m out of patience with critiques of the language of activists. Whatever a grieving family says is their truth,\u201d declared Rep. Ayanna Pressley.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard seeing the same people who uplift\u201d Rosa Parks\u2019 \u201ccourage, attack the movement for Black lives that want us to prioritize health, funding of schools & ending poverty, rather than racist police systems,\u201d huffed Rep. Rashida Tlaib.<\/p>\n

Obama not only was right that the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d slogan was political suicide for Democrats this year, he\u2019s morally right that the answer to rare instances of police misconduct is not to get rid of cops. All that will do is leave poorer communities, and people of color, further brutalized by crime. That Obama is considered too far right on this issue is madness.<\/p>\n

The Squad already cost Democrats gravely in the election. What will they cost America if they get their way?\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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