This was not my intent, and I’m sorry if it sounded like I was telling you how you should feel.
[Mod: We don’t tolerate, at all, people suggesting folks are “too emotional” to vote. Especially to users who identify publicly as female - there was an entire movement where that was one of the counterarguments. Do not do this.]
Not at all. I’m talking about perception, and the slogan “defund the police” is a slogan that’s consistent with Republican disinformation.
If police violence affected everyone it would have been fixed decades ago.
It still exists because the people whom it affects are not the people who have the power to fix it.
The people who can fix policing are the people who have nice amicable relationships with police. They have trouble believing the experiences of other communities because it contradicts their own experiences.
Cell phone videos are changing this, but we need to remember we’re trying to convince people with very different life experiences. And that is a fundamentally difficult thing to do.
