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What stands out first is that the Portland Mayor is using language that we most commonly apply to the handling of livestock.
What stands out second is that he's wrong. https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1331448737194008577
What stands out second is that he's wrong. https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1331448737194008577
"Homeless sweeps" are when police come to a place where unhoused people have created community, tear down what little home they have created, ransack their meager possessions, throw most of it away, (often after destroying it in front of them), all while insisting they're helping
Humane is a word that means "compassionate", but in practice, generally means "Not treating subhumans as cruelly as we legally could"
Being humane is generally considered an optional, magnanimous act.
Being humane is generally considered an optional, magnanimous act.
The State WANTS people to be homeless.
They consistently make and execute policy that keeps people unable to establish residence.
Police will drag a family out of a home literally nobody uses and put them back on the street. https://www.newsweek.com/child-dragged-california-highway-patrol-evicts-families-abandoned-homes-1550505
They consistently make and execute policy that keeps people unable to establish residence.
Police will drag a family out of a home literally nobody uses and put them back on the street. https://www.newsweek.com/child-dragged-california-highway-patrol-evicts-families-abandoned-homes-1550505
Some things people who have never experienced homelessness take for granted:
Identification
Heat
A good night's sleep
A shower
Memorabilia
Basic safety
Water
Choosing your food
A mailbox
Bathrooms on demand
Toilet paper
But homeless people don't deserve them.
Identification
Heat
A good night's sleep
A shower
Memorabilia
Basic safety
Water
Choosing your food
A mailbox
Bathrooms on demand
Toilet paper
But homeless people don't deserve them.
You might recognize the items above from the List of Things That Are Critical When Trying To Find Work or Procure a Roof.
Our society not only prevents people from obtaining these things, but will actively take them away from those who manage to find them.
Our society not only prevents people from obtaining these things, but will actively take them away from those who manage to find them.
Our society despises the poor.
We hate the poor with a passion usually reserved for serial predators.
We want them to die.
To disappear.
We punish them for continuing to draw breath.
We think up ways to make the lives of poor people as miserable and difficult as possible.
We hate the poor with a passion usually reserved for serial predators.
We want them to die.
To disappear.
We punish them for continuing to draw breath.
We think up ways to make the lives of poor people as miserable and difficult as possible.
We stack the deck against people in poverty and then we mock, deride and judge them.
Our contempt for the poor is so profound that our default position with regard to the poor is sadism.
Our society actually takes pleasure in antagonizing and tormenting the poor.
Our contempt for the poor is so profound that our default position with regard to the poor is sadism.
Our society actually takes pleasure in antagonizing and tormenting the poor.
We hold as a core tenet of our society that money = virtue
The less money you have, the worse a person you are
If you have none, you hand in your humanity card
You no longer deserve happiness
Or security
Or love
Or respect
Or intimacy
Or dignity
Or basic regard
You are null
The less money you have, the worse a person you are
If you have none, you hand in your humanity card
You no longer deserve happiness
Or security
Or love
Or respect
Or intimacy
Or dignity
Or basic regard
You are null
America hates the poor SO FUCKING MUCH.
America hates the poor because the poor reflect the moral cost of its wealth.
America hates mirrors and will smash any one it can find.
America hates mirrors and will smash any one it can find.
