"These homeless people need to stop shitting in public spaces!"
WHERE ELSE ARE THEY GONNA SHIT ASSHOLE? THEIR HOMES? (This also in a small city with no public restrooms and so fully gentrified that most businesses actively turn the homeless away/call cops on them. Only about 2 friendly places to use the bathroom and they're a 45 minute walk apart).
I made a large post in this thread already but the fact that most people talking about "the homeless' do so entirely in the abstract. It's fucking figures and statistics, it's handled so clinically and removed. I've been homeless, a lot of my friends still are, the way people talk it's like they're simply a problem to manage like vermin. Like, you can use poison or relocate your pests non lethally to where they don't bother you but you're still treating human beings literally like you do fucking vermin. The sheer dehumanization of the poor is truly terrifying.
It's also this weird belief that "the homeless" is a monolith instead of just a constantly shifting and moving class of individuals in that state for a multitude of reasons.
Like if you're homeless, that's all you are and everything else about you no longer matters.
Having been in there, you can break it down to some different types just like when a new type of guy drops but that goes for every strata of people. The same with how we only have "Guys' as a meme to describe white people you don't get to discriminate between different types of poor people if you aren't currently in the same boat or are close to such.
The greater your class position the more you are a person. If you're homeless or in prison you're a number or maybe even not accounted for that your entire life is based around the material gains that your broad representation. The other end of the spectrum would be any celebrity who's personal expression becomes popular trends or capitalists who can buy being treated like someone beyond human. I'm just learning all this as I'm writing it but I think I'm on to something .
But if we housed them they'd still have mental health and addiction issues!
Yeah, just like the rest of us motherfucker!
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Do they think being homeless will make not an addict or fix your mental health? I didn't know homelessness had such a power to heal.
My favorite is
"These homeless people need to stop shitting in public spaces!"
WHERE ELSE ARE THEY GONNA SHIT ASSHOLE? THEIR HOMES? (This also in a small city with no public restrooms and so fully gentrified that most businesses actively turn the homeless away/call cops on them. Only about 2 friendly places to use the bathroom and they're a 45 minute walk apart).
I made a large post in this thread already but the fact that most people talking about "the homeless' do so entirely in the abstract. It's fucking figures and statistics, it's handled so clinically and removed. I've been homeless, a lot of my friends still are, the way people talk it's like they're simply a problem to manage like vermin. Like, you can use poison or relocate your pests non lethally to where they don't bother you but you're still treating human beings literally like you do fucking vermin. The sheer dehumanization of the poor is truly terrifying.
It's also this weird belief that "the homeless" is a monolith instead of just a constantly shifting and moving class of individuals in that state for a multitude of reasons.
Like if you're homeless, that's all you are and everything else about you no longer matters.
Having been in there, you can break it down to some different types just like when a new type of guy drops but that goes for every strata of people. The same with how we only have "Guys' as a meme to describe white people you don't get to discriminate between different types of poor people if you aren't currently in the same boat or are close to such.
The greater your class position the more you are a person. If you're homeless or in prison you're a number or maybe even not accounted for that your entire life is based around the material gains that your broad representation. The other end of the spectrum would be any celebrity who's personal expression becomes popular trends or capitalists who can buy being treated like someone beyond human. I'm just learning all this as I'm writing it but I think I'm on to something .
No, it's the classic leftist "no ethical consumption" thing but said by capitalists.
"Why fix a few things if you can't fix everything?"