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Andrew Yang Is a Fucking Idiot...
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lol. What I love about Silicon Valley is that they were praised as these uber-geniuses that cared about the world (unlike those scum bag coke snorting traditional big business wall street types).
But I think I prefer the scumbags. They at least know they are pieces of shit. You don't see Goldman exec's trying to be woke in real time
Thanks for sharing a post you copied straight off of twitter with editorial that was also likely copied from the comments. You are one of the 6,560 talking about this, and that number just went up with your sharing, congrats!
The branding isn't the problem.
The relationship the police have to civil society is the problem. They're supposed to be civil servants who protect and serve people above all else. They don't need another name, they just need to actually do their job and not be racists or murderers or a mafia/protection racket while doing it. They just need to be fireable/jailable if they themselves commit crimes on the job.
The relationship the police have to civil society is the problem. They're supposed to be civil servants who protect and serve people above all else. They don't need another name, they just need to actually do their job and not be racists or murderers or a mafia/protection racket while doing it. They just need to be fireable/jailable if they themselves commit crimes on the job.
He was even alllowed to be on a debate stage with real candidates!
Andrew Yang has a lot of takes. I'd say about 80% of them are pretty good, and about 20% of them are just like "Andrew, please, stop, you're embarrassing yourself."
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Andrew's actually super smart and it's not like this is some kind of complete platform for reform. Context of the quote matters.
He's 100% right in that if you train police as 'warriors' and use military jargon, the result is that you get a militarized police force that treats their job like combat patrols-with predictable outcomes. Branding and naming, along with the words that reinforce it, does actually matter.
He's 100% right in that if you train police as 'warriors' and use military jargon, the result is that you get a militarized police force that treats their job like combat patrols-with predictable outcomes. Branding and naming, along with the words that reinforce it, does actually matter.
It's a dumb tweet, but it looks like he's posted a TON about this, including things like defunding the police and radically changing their roll.
This doesn't seem like a fair critique.
This doesn't seem like a fair critique.
You can't just... change their name and give them a literal 'make-over'.
That said, in the Minneapolis PD disbanding thread, people have already said the replacement shouldn't even carry the name Police, and I did suggest Guardian, since it gets away from the taint of the current system.
That said, in the Minneapolis PD disbanding thread, people have already said the replacement shouldn't even carry the name Police, and I did suggest Guardian, since it gets away from the taint of the current system.
Oh well in that case, he's in tune with everyone. So I don't see why we should drag him for this tweet.
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I forgot what the slogan on the decepticon police car had.
holy shit
This guy generally seems thoughtful and well-intentioned but insanely naive. Also these Punisher-loving cops already think of themselves as "Guardians" of all that is good and white, the problem is they don't consider Black people and certain other groups of people to be part of the community they should be protecting.
I don't like this take, but for some background the Guardian vs. Warrior style training and mentality is something that's been debated in law enforcement for a while and is the accepted terminology, not just a term Yang made up.
Edit: Read some more of his opinions on the issue and don't feel the OP's title is being fair to him at all. There's a lot in there, but the one take that could be poked fun at got pulled as evidence that he's a "fucking idiot" on police reform. Not particularly helpful or informative.
Edit: Read some more of his opinions on the issue and don't feel the OP's title is being fair to him at all. There's a lot in there, but the one take that could be poked fun at got pulled as evidence that he's a "fucking idiot" on police reform. Not particularly helpful or informative.
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Saving his follow-up tweets about the blazer experiment for a new thread I see. Smart not to just include them here.
It's at 6,589 now!!!
Yeah. That's literally what China did with its police force when the country was founded in 1949, as a gesture of police abolition. We all know how that went down.
Probably the most vile racist shit in the world.
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Probably the most vile racist shit in the world.
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