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How "defund the police" became radioactive

The conversation that would unfold about policing when someone was killed, whether it was someone like Mike Brown, Walter Scott... it would be about the specific dynamics of the interaction. Did the officer fear for his life or not? Did this person were they racist? You know, all these kinds of things. And what bothered me about that was that those conversations blocked out these broader questions about really the main question which is what causes harm in our society actually, right? Why is policing the solution? Why is an armed person with a gun the solution to so many social problems

TED

How to Make Learning Impossibly Fun | Mark Rober | TED

It's kind of the most important job in on the planet and so and they're not compensated as well as they like we should be ashamed I think I said that like we should be ashamed of like the support teachers actually get um for the importance of what they do

It's Been a Minute

Homelessness is more common than you think.

I think about it as it's become like the scarlet H. They've taken those conditions and treated them as if it's a moral failure. They've then pinned that on anyone with a label homeless.