In a a thread on Twitter, AOC addressed the recent call to “defund the police” that has come from Black Lives Matter activists and Democrat politicians over the recent weeks since the riots sparked off by the death of George Floyd.
AOC claimed that “defunding” the police simply meant that “Black & Brown communities are asking for the same budget priorities that White communities have already created for themselves: schooling > police,etc,” and that “people asked in other ways, but were always told ‘No, how do you pay for it?’ So they found the line item.”
“Lots of DC insiders are criticizing frontline activists over political feasibility and saying they need a new slogan,” she continued. However, she went on to argue that “poll-tested slogans and electoral feasibility” is not the job of activists, with their priorities simply being to “organize support and transform public opinion, which they are doing.”
Lots of DC insiders are criticizing frontline activists over political feasibility and saying they need a new slogan.
But poll-tested slogans and electoral feasibility is not the activists’ job. Their job is to organize support and transform public opinion, which they are doing.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020
AOC criticized the fact that some people were “scrambling to repackage this whole conversation to make it palatable for largely affluent, white suburban ‘swing’ voters,” arguing that it “points to how much more electoral & structural power these communities have relative to others.”
And by the way, the fact that ppl are scrambling to repackage this whole conversation to make it palatable for largely affluent, white suburban “swing” voters again points to how much more electoral & structural power these communities have relative to others
Just for awareness!
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020
Perhaps a bad choice to your aims & focus
It’s been an excellent choice for the organizers who have been trying to prompt a national convo for years about multibillion-dollar police depts.
“Refund” or “reallocate” didn’t do that. “Defund” did. BLM had similar early resistance.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 9, 2020
It speaks volumes that AOC would not want the Democrat Party to tone down their rhetoric on the “defund the police,” slogan.
“Be careful how you word our insane agenda because it might run off those that aren’t insane.”
Once again Democratic Stupidity rears is ugly head AOC must have landed on her head way too many times she acts like a total screwball
Police, all members of liberal police unions, are shocked to be treated the same way as non-liberals are regularly treated by both the press and liberal legislators……
New York police boss Mike O’Meara went off today:
Yeah, getting lumped into some liberal’s imaginary hasty generalization hurts.
so when the idiot aoc is in trouble and needs help who is she going to call? “GOASTBUSTERS”.
Okay lets see Little Miss Screwball live and sleep in her home without any armed guards to protect her pathetic little hide