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		karaterobot on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Banning words won’t make the world more just > which "defund the police" seems to be modeled after. I think that's probably a coincidence. I didn't get the sense at the time that the genesis of that phrase was a sly historical reference.

PaulHoule on March 3, 2023 [–]

I don’t see it as a sly reference. I see it as a lack of imagination, cynicism, people getting carried along thoughtlessly.

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