Defunding The Police

[Deskdiary]

What does that actually mean?

To me it suggests withdrawing money, but given BLM want to abolish the police, why use a mealymouthed word such as ‘defunding’.

Have BLM suggested an alternative to the police, or is their ultimate aim lawlessness?

[mushroom25]

// As to policing, the slogan might have been better-expressed as "reallocate...…." //

actually no Jim. the following posted to their Twitter feed yesterday. they are most definitely not "reformists".

https://twitter.com/ukblm/status/1274778196584673281/photo/2

[Jackdaw33]

I agree that no prisons should be privately run. They are organs of the state and should be run by officers of the state, not jumped-up, ill-trained security guards.

[jim360]

Hmm. Well that I disagree with, mushroom.

[royfromaus]

''Hmm. Well that I disagree with, mushroom.''



Jim, are you seriously telling me this is news to you?

[jim360]

BLM is a wider organisation and message than BLMUK. In a sense it's not even an organisation at all, or at least there's no overarching structure beyond a desire for justice. Yes, I missed some of the aspects of one specific "chapter" of it.

[royfromaus]

I think you had better do some more research.

[jim360]

There's always more research to do, of course. But I'm satisfied that the underlying causes of BLM are worth supporting even if their more extreme wings may not be.

[royfromaus]

oh' dear.

[royfromaus]

What's a trained Marxist?


I can't find an answer anywhere.

[jim360]

I'm sure it must be lovely to be in a position where you have no more research at all to conduct.

[royfromaus]

Trained Marxists...what else do you need to know about an organisation to be anti that organisation?