This is a straw man, everything about the current push ("from what I can see") is towards exactly the types of anti corruption efforts you described.
This is a straw man, everything about the current push ("from what I can see") is towards exactly the types of anti corruption efforts you described.
- Deescalation training
- Defunding (extreme)
- Demilitarizing the police
- Community outreach
- Reduce over-policing
etc.
These are the things that have been talked about and pushed for the past decade (well, in some circles decades, but nationally it's a conversation that comes and goes, but has stayed at the top the past decade or so).
Not "everything" is. Yes, "anti-corruption efforts" are being pushed. But you have shifted your ground. Now you're talking about "anti corruption efforts". Before you were talking about "institutional racism". The latter is, as I said, narrower; it amounts to saying, first, that the institutional corruption has racism as its sole or primary root cause (which I think is false--I think racism is a symptom of corruption, but not the only one, and certainly not its cause), and second, that the only reason to fix institutional corruption is to fix racism (which is also false). And that is exactly the kind of rhetoric I see all over the place.
The reason to fix institutional corruption is that it's corruption. Citizens of every demographic are affected by institutional corruption and want to fix it. I think it's much better to unite around that common goal than to talk about "racism", which is only going to divide people who should be united against corruption.
But as words are important it's important to not dismiss intentional, systemic racism that we know definitely exists.