Posted on 09/15/2022 1:33:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Cenk Uygur, founder and host of the progressive outlet "The Young Turks," condemned far-left rhetoric against police in a Tuesday tweet.
"Will people who came up with 'Defund the Police' slogan admit they were wrong? It was wildly counterproductive framing," he said in the post. "You don't speak for the left. And neither do people pushing the counterproductive 'Abolish Prisons.' Polls show that almost no one on the left agrees with you."
Uygur warned further that people who use that variety of rhetoric do not speak for the American left as a whole.
"You can't claim to speak for the left, if polls indicate that actual human beings who are on the left don't like your ideas," he claimed. "And if they like your ideas, but you bungled it by making your ideas sound worse through the names and the framing, then that's on you. Do better."
In the summer of 2020, however, when riots raged across the country, his rhetoric was very different.
"I'm done. I'm now supporting #DefundThePolice 100%. I already largely agreed with the substance of the argument & now I'm down for the framing, too," he tweeted on June 25, 2020. "There is no reform or transformation that can fix this. We have to start over and completely rebuild policing in this country."
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“We have to start over and completely rebuild policing in this country.”
And the left is going to get that opportunity. I was talking to a cop friend this morning, his department is canceling their October cadet class because they don’t have enough people. And of the one that is currently being trained, 42 applicants had not fully completed the hiring process, (they needed bodies in the class) seven of which quit within the past two days. He told me background investigators are being told to ignore issues that would normally disqualify an applicant, just so they can try to get bodies in the Academy. Background investigators are quitting because they are being forced to hire bad officers.
The left can now proclaim, “fund the police.” But there is nothing left to fund. And there is no quick fix.
Chunk Yogurt!
The polls changed.
A real rocket doctor that one.
A real rocket doctor that one.
This is SOP for Lefties.
They depend on people having short memories.
When the narrative winds shift, you can always depend on them to say “I never said that.”
Wasnt his group the ones who backed AOC and got her elected?
He’s part and parcel of the insanity destroying this country.
Re. my tagline.
He’s only parroting this stuff now because it will be an issue for the mid terms and for 2024 and he doesn’t want to lose leftist votes.
I really dislike him
Partly he’s obnoxious looking like Harvey Weinstein
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