transcript [text overlaid on several pictures of benches and outside windowsills. the benches have bars, or gaps to prevent someone from sleeping on them.

text reads “Ban anti-homeless arctithecture”]

sauce: https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/112901196516297447

Hostile architecture is among the symptoms of the hostile modern city, where neighbours never say hi, and people die on the streets as people walk passivly by.

  • smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How incredibly selfish do you need to be to think that not being inconvenienced for 5 minutes while you wait for a bus to your cozy home justifies turning public resting spots into torture devices to make sure those who have nothing at all can’t even lie down?

    The entitlement and lack of empathy is absolutely mind-blowing. Not to mention how you wrapped it all up as a false dilemma and then act as though you’re doing it all for the elderly and disabled. I guess the homeless people just aren’t disadvantaged enough.

    Honestly, at what point do you go “well the issue is real, but when it comes to “solutions”, let’s draw the line here”? These measures should be scoffed, ridiculed, and anyone suggesting them as a solution be forced to live on the street for 6 months, and for the remainder of whatever career they have left have a cut of their salary spent on getting people off the street.

    These contraptions, after all, are not there so uncle Bob and pregnant Priscilla can have a rest, they are there as a cheap, short-sighted measure to hide a problem nobody is interested in solving. They’re a hackjob by politicians to force those already in the gutter even deeper into misery so you don’t have to endure looking at them, cause you know, you might actually start demanding a real solution if you are reminded of it every day.

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Why do you think that’s a valid criticism? Like why is that the rhetoric you pro-homelessness people have?

        If you dislike student loans and criticize them for everyone, even if you have yours paid off, must you then pay off a certain number of other people’s loans before you can advocate for government policies that forgive them? Like you see how stupid that is as a suggestion, when someone wants government to handle something (literally exercising their right to free speech as the law was written) and you demand they do it at an individual level?