Abolish Reductive Slogans & Defund Shorthand:

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The Left Should Stop Giving Ammunition to the Right

I get it.

“Reallocate public safety funding to privilege human services over more martial, reactive, and repressive modalities” may not quite have the pith and punch of “Defund the Police.”

And, “Comprehensive immigration reform should be thoughtful, humane, and precisely focused and…