https://jacobin.com/2023/02/cities-homeless-people-public-housing-police-raids
liberals will defend 
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120
liberals will oppose
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/cities-homeless-people-public-housing-police-raids
liberals will defend
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120
liberals will oppose
Yoo thanks so much for adding your perspective. It's definitely one I've heard from folks I talk to. It honestly makes more sense to me than doing what I'm doing to struggle to be a "normal, well adjusted" (lol) person. There are people I work with who camp way far out in the woods and refuse to live inside again if they have to be near other people. I will never try to guilt them or pressure them to engage in services when they tell me that. I had a client I was helping get an ID, he was staying in one of those pallet shelter communities. I asked him if he wanted to do any shelter assessment lists or anything like that. He told me "Nope, I have my pallet and that's good enough for me. I got out of prison and I tried and tried to do what I was supposed to, to try and get a house and a job and y'all didn't want me, so I don't fuckin' want it anymore". And that's valid as fuck, he was let down and shit on so much, WHY would he ever want to re-engage in this shitshow again? This world has failed them, other broken people have failed them.
I've never been homeless myself, but my mom has and I've seen some wild shit that a young kid shouldn't see so I have my share of trauma but I wouldn't ever pretend to understand what it's like to live how my clients live. But I want to listen, and I want to be angry with them and for them, and I want to cheer them on, and just be a safe person for them to just shoot the shit with more than anything.
as for the vermin thing, that is an actual thing that I've heard someone call homeless people online. That is some genocidal dogwhistling, I couldn't believe it. Local subreddits are cesspools
Keep doin what yr doin brother. There are few things in life that mean more than merely having an advocate.
It's life changing. Truly.
And fuck reddit. The local subreddits especially. The Seattle one is hot garbage, full of people who've never lived in Seattle spouting off right-wing hatred that doesn't reflect 95% of the thousands of people that I've personally met in the area. Portlands gotta be exactly the same. I recall reading in the Stranger (our version of the Willamette Weekly) that the police union has motherfuckers astroturfing and spreading the copaganda and I fucking believe it.
I was talking on a Tacoma thread about a guy i personally watched the TPD and state patrol kill and got told they did nothing wrong. When he was on the ground, surrounded, and 5 different tazers hit him. Uh huh. Defending that is unfathomable.
I followed the case. Internal Investigations said they did no wrong. Motherfuckers. ACAB.
It's so sad that when I hear about that kind of shit that I'm not surprised. There is ALWAYS a reason for people to victim blame.
Also kinda wild that the cops are astroturfing, though. I could definitely see that on Facebook. I think in general people who use reddit regularly are of particular demographics that are privileged and fake progressive, so I can see how the community opinion would be skewed. It's just so disheartening to see, though
The last guy to run for police union prez in Seattle, for reelection, his motto was literally "controlling the narrative".
Saying the quiet parts out loud.
The fucking audacity. I'm sure the good ol boys loved that. Ugh