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Re:The Cities Taking Up Calls to Defund the Police by leetcrew on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:52PM (#23470776)
I suspect it is an example of this: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey

when in ideologically-friendly circles, you say "defund the police!" and don't worry about how literally people will take it. they will assume your position is the same as theirs and agree.

when an outsider questions you, you say "oh, of course we don't mean it literally". then you go back to using the unqualified version within your bubble. after a while, who knows what you mean? who cares?

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