You should be ashamed to use that name
Bill & Ted understood empathy and that things aren’t black & white
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wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours agoWhoa whoa whoa. “No SNAP == more crime”? 🤬 That’s some self-hate prop BS, but I can understand how it feels factual. 😢
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
On the contrary. The vast majority of crime is the result of poverty and social desperation.
“Criminals” aren’t a separate breed of contemptible human. They’re mostly regular people doing what they feel they have to in order to make it through the day/week/month/year/life.
It stands to reason that crimes of desperation such as shoplifting groceries, petty enrichment crimes, and drug use will happen more often when people lose their lifelines to barely being able to feed themselves and their families.
That’s not a “poor people are criminal scum” thing.
It’s a “the vast majority of crime is a result of poverty and other social issues putting regular people into difficult situations where they’re more likely to have to/think they have to break the law to get by” thing.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
True, and when politicians say they are “tough on crime” and other shit that suggests some people are just “bad criminals”, all they’re really doing is spouting racist dog whistles.