Let’s assume this is real, if you are noisy to the point of bothering others and you happen to be spending your time on the street doing it, being called derogatory names is expected, irrespective of your home ownership status.
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snue@feddit.dk 2 months ago
What a dehumanizing way to talk about homeless people :/
People you know, and yourself, could become homless tomorrow. This dehumanization leads to violence against homeless people.
They’re people too and they deserve a place to be. The solution to homelessness is not just moving them to another side of town, but among other things reducing the cost of apartments and houses.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
snue@feddit.dk 2 months ago
The post is not just about calling people derogatory names, it is also about flying a drone with a voice message. When push comes to shove, the voice message is a threat of calling the police. Where are the crackheads going to go now ?
They have no other place to be. So asking them to leave is just asking them to go to a new place, and then a new place after that and so on, while each day some of them die due to cold, violence and other accumulating factors.
This is a systematic issue, and we need to fix the system and be compassionate, rather than just push poor people around.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a similar issue with the seedy drug underground in an apartment I was in. My car was an old white Crown Vic, which apparently the dealers thought it was an undercover car and they would fuck with it. I didn’t know it was them, until I stopped getting screws in my tires the same day they got arrested.
If they have no other place to be, then maybe they shouldn’t be actively fucking up the only place they can be.
Yes, there is a systemic issue with housing, but there is also some individual responsibility for drug addiction and vandalism.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Rehab.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who said they were homeless? That’s a pretty pejorative assumption you’re making.
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
_The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact._
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 months ago
The story, whether fact or fiction, talks about homeless people this way and dehumanises them.
Zozano@aussie.zone 2 months ago
In case you missed the reference, OP’s image suggests they’re a villain.
I guess fiction cannot ever depict bad people because their intent dehumanizes <insert marginalized people>
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are all Crackheads homeless?
snue@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Not necessarily, but it is often used as a derogatory word about homeless people.
Whether it’s perfectly synonymous, my point still stands about respecting the humanity of other people
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait, no your Point just crumbled to dust.
You say he is disrespectful towards homless people because he calls them Crackheads and uses a drone to shoo them away.
But then you say you don’t even know if he really meant homless people because Crackheads are not necessarily homeless.
In fact, you just said he meant homless instead of Crackheads, and now you are angry about something you said he meant?
snue@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Most people, who call other people “crackheads” have not seen those people take drugs. They use the word because of how the other people look.
Being called a crackhead more often than not means “looks like a homeless person”.
hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Respect is a two-way street, though. People don’t deserve to be disrespected or dehumanized just because they’ve fallen on hard times, it could happen to any of us, after all. My respect for crackheads is about as limited for my respect for the guys jerking off to lone women on the subway, though. If the system has chewed you up so thoroughly that you need to smoke crack to get through the day, you have my sympathy Go do you, hope things get better for you. On the other hand, I’ve got effectively no sympathy for the crackheads where I used to live that would get high as hell, then shit in the staircases, get into fights with the only elevator in the building until it broke, or just sat outside all night, screaming and blasting music.
I’m a reasonably healthy younger person, so having the elevator out of commision for months at a time because of their antics was a nuisance, especially when it came time to haul groceries up to my apartment on the seventh floor, or bring my laundry down to the basement to wash it. It was outright dangerous for more elderly residents on the upper floors, who essentially became housebound, though. My mother-in-law couldn’t deal with all those steps, and there were elderly people on higher floors put at risk because paramedics couldn’t reach them nearly as quickly if they had an emergency, not to mention the challenge of bringing someone down a bunch of narrow stairs on a stretcher.
Just because they’re suffering at a given moment doesn’t give them the right to degrade everyone else’s quality of life, if not outright endanger their lives.
snue@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I agree, but you’re getting mad at the symptom of the problem, not the root.
We should definitely get rid of “crackheadness”, but I think we should do it by building a better system and supporting each other.
discostjohn@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’ve never heard people use the terms interchangeably. There are homeless people, crackheads, and homeless crackheads.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nope, shit untill housing prices went up so high most crack heads had stable housing.
But in most places income assistance isn’t enough so they end up homeless