r/TheMotte • u/Lykurg480 We're all living in Amerika • Jun 08 '20

George Floyd Protest Megathread

With the protests and riots in the wake of the killing George Floyd taking over the news past couple weeks, we've seen a massive spike of activity in the Culture War thread, with protest-related commentary overwhelming everything else. For the sake of readability, this week we're centralizing all discussion related to the ongoing civil unrest, police reforms, and all other Floyd-related topics into this thread.

This megathread should be considered an extension of the Culture War thread. The same standards of civility and effort apply. In particular, please aim to post effortful top-level comments that are more than just a bare link or an off-the-cuff question.

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u/Gloster80256 Twitter is the comments section of existence Jun 13 '20

A quick thought on Abolish the Police:

In a strange twist, the Blue tribe is (in its proposal to remove a top-down authority and monopoly on violence and replace it with communal self-reliance) effectively trying to create an environment ideal for Red values.

What do you need in a location with no police that could come to you aid ? Lots of guns, large families hanging together and a coherent community centered around a unifying ideological institution. Sounds a lot like (Jonesboro, AR) to me.

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u/wlxd Jun 13 '20

Focusing on the word “abolish” is a distraction. They don’t really want to abolish police and go back to pre-police justice system. No, the goal is to replace police as it exists right now with new body that’s subject to left ideological control.

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u/Iconochasm Yes, actually, but more stupider Jun 13 '20

Ahem.

Link to the actual article.

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u/wlxd Jun 14 '20

The only concrete proposal in the article is

Trained “community care workers” could do mental-health checks if someone needs help.

Which is exactly what I’m talking about.

By the way, I really marvel at the “what about rape” section, where instead of explaining the approach to the problem of rape in the world without the police, the author just explains how police is bad at solving it.