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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The point isn't that the two stances are in direct abstract contradiction, but that they are in obvious practical contradiction, because there's no world in which there are no criminals, or where, absent police, vigilantes aren't widespread. — PolitiTweet.org

Wow so the same people who think police shouldn’t murder people also think citizens shouldn’t murder people??????? https://t.co/KqWk7AnWc4

Posted Nov. 20, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@tomgara Should have been phrased *an argument that prominent publications and political figures treated as mainstream, despite its unpopularity* — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 20, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I do not claim it was mainstream. It was a well-known view of a noisy faction that too many people who should know better popularized and treated as if it was mainstream, despite its untenability and unpopularity. It wasn't treated as "nuts" but now you say it's "nut-picking" — PolitiTweet.org

Counter point: The zeitgeist was never *abolish the police.* you are nut-picking and trying to represent it as a ma… https://t.co/15yLGgp0ox

Posted Nov. 20, 2021