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Originally Posted by MB.
Calling opposition to the continued overfunding of the primary source of murdered Black people in the U.S. "dangerous groupthink" tells me all I need to know
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
Defunding the police in the UK is a ridiculous goal that has been copy-and-pasted from the US movement where it makes sense, and suggesting that anyone who doesn't support defunding the police in the UK "doesn't think that black lives matter" isn't just ludicrous, it's actively self-damaging to the cause.
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Advocating for de-funding the over-equipped, militarised US police forces is an admirable cause.
Trying to franchise that sentiment and apply it, without any critical thought, to the UK where the issues clearly exist
but in a very different way, and
where the police being under-funded is actually part of the problem, because "the movement says so" is dangerous group-think, yes. I acknowledge that ethnic minorities are horribly mistreated, I believe that black lives matter and will wholeheartedly support any intelligent effort to establish and maintain true equality.
I won't support ill-considered hive mind and group ideologies over independent critical thought. It doesn't help, and when it escalates it's actively damaging. Group organisation and protest is a great thing - when it's properly directed. Defund the police is well thought out and properly organised
in the US. The same thing
in the UK has no considered ideology behind it beyond "that's what they're doing over there, so..."
Supporting something as default without any scope for critical analysis is just dogma. Dogma isn't going to convince anyone to change anything.