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Hostile architecture reinforces hostility
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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.
Well, now that's an assumption.
Oh you're right, they must be deciding to be homeless. Why didn't i think of that?
I've literally talked to some homeless people that chose to not participate in society...
So better to just leave them exposed to the elements than change society to not leave them disenfranchised? A choice to not participate in society shouldn't equate to a choice to live without the most basic degree of safety and stability.
That's a "choice" just like someone who can't afford life saving medicine "choses" to not receive treatment. Its society's failure, not the victim's.
I know three homeless people personally. Am related to one. Two are meth users, the other is on heroin. The one I am related to has stolen money and random stuff he could pawn from anyone in my family who let him stay at their house, so he became homeless cause nobody could trust him and he often wouldn't show up for whatever local job he got. (He has a truck and we gave him gas money until we learned he wasn't actually going to work.) Couldn't stay at shelters either because of drugs. Lived in a trailer in the woods for a bit with his girlfriend until she kicked him out.
Where did I even insinuate that kind of a statement?
And I fully understand that, have you seen society lately?
Sometimes it is tempting to just say fuck it all