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Originally Posted by ue
Jesus Christ.
You claim to have "compassion" for unhoused individuals and hate a "fucked up cowboy capitalist society" but your answer is... we need to impose further barriers to their lives of those who already face so many by restricting where they can exist. Do you not see how egregiously egoistic and classist you sound?
Despite your awareness of capitalism being a problem in this situation, you offer no solutions for the actual people who find themselves without access to safe and adequate housing, and are only concerned with yourself and how you feel about their presence. It really shouldn't be about you. Like, yes, it sucks to have to walk by used syringes, or whatever, but at the end of the day, you get to go back to adequate shelter, have access to income, and so forth, so who cares what you think?
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To be frank, what he thinks *does* matter. If cities are rendered totally unlivable where do you think the money for said "solutions" is going to come from? Having compassion for the less fortunate =! telling everyone with a roof over their head to F off.
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The focus should not be on basically corralling houseless folks into designated quarters so that essentially gentrifiers can not have to look at this "squalor" or whatever villainous term you'd like to project onto marginalized people. It should be with providing housing, access to education, healthcare (including safe injection sites, mental health resources), and employment, and giving them community spaces.
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I agree with all of the above except the housing part. What we should do is be building hotel-esque support units for those without housing and connect the wrap around services to that.
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Get over yourself. It sounds like you'd have a better time in a more whitewashed, sanitized urban experience. You know Anaheim isn't very far from you, right? Yes, it sucks to see these situations, but if you truly care, then do something that actually helps these people, rather than advocating for their removal, citing they somehow have less of a right to your "middle class" neighbourhood than you. The arrogance you show against those living without housing is abhorrent. Do better.
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IMHO, there nothing that screams white wealthy privilege than those who actually advocate for or enjoy being in squalor. It's like those folks who instagram Rio's favelas or the bad parts of Johannesburg to show their "wokeness" knowing full well they're only a plane ride away from going back to an upper middle class existence. If people actually had to "live" like in the photos posted, there's no damn way it would be allowed.