lol getting mad at the houseless part is missing the fucking point (and yet another example of chapos stop parroting stupidpol shit challenge). houseless or unhoused is preferred because it gets to the heart of the problem.
it also highlights the incredibly offensive dehumanization involved when folks use homeless as a noun, which also happens here
the fact that they felt the need to qualify it with a parenthetical (homeless) like it's not clear what the fuck houseless means is the thing to dunk on
to the actually good point about the cooption of liberatory discourse, this is one of the more blatant examples
Ok, fair enough, I didn't know this. I've never considered homelessness shameful, it's shameful of our society, so I didn't make the association. I'm not sure that changing the word is gonna change the attitude of the kind of person that does refer to human beings as "the homeless" though, but I'll use whatever language is preferred by those effected.
The way I see it, the dehumanizing comes from the toxic attitudes of asshole people, I don't think changing the wording is gonna change those attitudes. I feel like they're still gonna assume that "houseless" people are lazy, stupid and useless just as they currently think "the homeless" are, ya know? Again, though, def not gonna die on this molehill, so I'll gladly adjust.
Ooo, let me try:
We have a terrible homelessness problem, what do we do?
Actually, those people are houseless, not homeless.
Ahhhh, well then great news, we have solved the homelessness crisis!
lol getting mad at the houseless part is missing the fucking point (and yet another example of chapos stop parroting stupidpol shit challenge). houseless or unhoused is preferred because it gets to the heart of the problem.
it also highlights the incredibly offensive dehumanization involved when folks use homeless as a noun, which also happens here
the fact that they felt the need to qualify it with a parenthetical (homeless) like it's not clear what the fuck houseless means is the thing to dunk on
to the actually good point about the cooption of liberatory discourse, this is one of the more blatant examples
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Ok, fair enough, I didn't know this. I've never considered homelessness shameful, it's shameful of our society, so I didn't make the association. I'm not sure that changing the word is gonna change the attitude of the kind of person that does refer to human beings as "the homeless" though, but I'll use whatever language is preferred by those effected.
previously I would've said that it's real hard to misinterpret houseless but that tweet tells us that they're definitely going to
The way I see it, the dehumanizing comes from the toxic attitudes of asshole people, I don't think changing the wording is gonna change those attitudes. I feel like they're still gonna assume that "houseless" people are lazy, stupid and useless just as they currently think "the homeless" are, ya know? Again, though, def not gonna die on this molehill, so I'll gladly adjust.