Captain Crimson wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:50 pm
Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:37 am
I bet you fricking loved South Park growing up.
No, I always preferred
The Simpsons and
King of the Hill.
Besides, I already broke out of the rut and gave my support to the one person who's advocating police and criminal justice reform I think will actually try, and not just hollow campaign promises. In a crucial swing state, as well. Don't know what else you expect, but keep on making friends there.
When the whole system is so rotted and decayed you can't get anything done, what system is that? A bad one. And I hold no political office nor any kind of public visibility, so little I can do past what I just said.
It isn't really hypocrisy though. Defunding the police is a rational measure, maybe specifically, but maybe for general consideration too. Calling hypocrisy in that situation is dubious because "abolish the police" is outlier selection.
In TGLS's example, the overall effort to reform with progressive standards is constantly challenged, and it's much more broad based on the right, typically lacking any resolution from the right's efforts to understand the issue fairly.
Now I did saw Lauren Chen remark that conservatives do tend to dismiss BLM as the only prominent organization battling police brutality, and I say again on this forum that that is a positive step for general conservative rhetoric. Overall, though, it's a regular thing and doesn't really fit in the
exaggerated culture column.
Just my thoughts on the matter. No biggie.
