Apparently the majority of backs in Minneapolis voted against defund the police

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[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/poll-finds-more-white-voters-than-black-want-to-abolish-the-minneapolis-police-department/

Not directly a source as this is polling data. But I would say that even though it's not a majority, 42% is still a substantial amount. I'm indifferent to this issue so I don't have much to say about it.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

You're indifferent about abolishing a police dept? Care to explain why?

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I'm indifferent to it happening in Minneapolis. I think there are some things that people need to learn the hard way, and I haven't really seen a substantial right wing swing among Minnesotans. If they are going to largely be race-blind leftists after everything that has happened at least in the last decade, maybe the department of public safety is what they need.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

That's solid reasoning. I took your comment about being indifferent to mean you simply didn't think anything about it. Being indifferent because you think it's good medicine is probably where many right leaning whites stand.

I'm leaning pro abolishment for the same reasons, but I do have concerns. Wealthy white leftists have a bad habit of turning areas into crime infested no-go zones, then fleeing to new white havens or walling themselves off.

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah, that's fair. I'm not really sure what the dissident right's position on the defunding matter is, but I will say in a better world defunding the police would simply not be something that is even considered. I'm not blind to the importance of law enforcement, but I also think police are as bad as they are largely due to the abuse they get from minorities, and the measures they have to now take to keep the peace. But that's not terribly important right now.

If this were the 1960s I think it's very likely the shitlibs would pack up and leave. Minneapolis would go the way of Detroit or Chicago or St. Louis. Maybe that will still happen today, white flight is definitely still happening, I know as much.

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    [–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Out of interest are any of your new neighbours still shitlibs despite the hell on Earth of their own making they're escaping from especially in the case of California?

    [–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I don't like the shortened phase "white flight" due to pejoration by the left. I prefer the longer phase: "white people literally running for their lives to avoid unpoliced [ethnic] crime." It's far more descriptive that it's a right to flee for one's life and to places that will be safe.

    [–]nordmannenLegionnaire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That's only part of the white flight story. Not all of them, in fact I would argue most of them, aren't fleeing for their lives from ethnic crime because they move to other places and propose the same things that destroyed their original neighborhoods. Plenty of whites fled from up north to the south, for example, but they are the most race-blind and leftist people you will encounter, as is the case for a lot of urbanites fleeing shitty neighborhoods or states.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I am. On the one hand, the police are the mindless thugs enforcing stupid tyranny, but on the other, they sometimes keep the worst elements of crime in check.

    [–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    That's a poll though. I'm talking about the election results.

    [–]nordmannenLegionnaire 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah I know, I was looking for a source. I don't doubt Maher's claim, but I wasn't able to find a source directly backing it up, sorry.