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That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus de
by truckerbill 2y ago
That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus deserve to suffer, rather than victims of circumstance in one way or another.
- doomroot 2y ago> but noone is framing that situation as the problem. I think yimbys are framing that situation as THE problem.
- truckerbill 2y agoI meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents too much opportunity to talk past each other. So I don't think talking about yimbys is specific enough (and its too tempting to strawman). Same for magas and libs, they are broad labels for a broad spectrum of people
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSo, what do we talk about then? Humans are pretty bad at multitasking so when speaking generally to a public you want to focus on one issue at a time.
- truckerbill 2y agoI'm saying be more specific not less
- kjkjadksj 2y agoNo one is framing it that way because it misses the nuance of these homeless peoples individual issues and how we might actually treat them. When people complain about homeless people in their neighborhood, they aren’t talking about the invisible homeless who are only homeless due to economic circumstance and might be couch surfing or living in their car. They are talking almost exclusively about the most visible population of homeless people, those who have severe mental health or drug addictions and need in patient services for potentially all their life.