Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads

• 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

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  • 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?

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    • 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”.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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  • discostjohn@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve never heard people use the terms interchangeably. There are homeless people, crackheads, and homeless crackheads.

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• 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

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