i've never heard from people who participate in BLM protests talk about defund the police as a "slogan", they don't think of activism as a marketing campaign
that does not mean movements don't have to think about communication, but it's the call for X that is at the core, people who refer to the call to defund the police primarily as a slogan confuse what activism is about - it's not about market-analysis, it's about pushing change
change comes from a place of risk & danger, exactly because it's not oriented towards what the mainstream can comfortably absorb as uncontroversial. the argument that change needs to do that comes from a static model of society, not from a view of a dynamic, ever changing society
more importantly, it often stems from view of neoliberal-era-politics, which emphasizes public relations, sloganeering, deflection, lying. ppl are brainwashed into *consuming* politics, not *doing* politics
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