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ChanceTheGardenerr t1_irxisex wrote

This is the kind of cosmetic bullshittery that is happening instead of real social reform.

Leave the street signs alone and dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, already.

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Swak_Error t1_irzwx59 wrote

I'm kind of convinced that this meaningless activism like changing the name of a street is some kind of psyop to make people think that they're actually accomplishing something in the name of social justice, when in truth that's not doing jack shit.

I know far too many people who act like they just solved the world hunger when a town caves and renames a street name or bus terminal or something like that

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Granolapitcher t1_iryxble wrote

There’s a school and prison on plantation street!

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Gahlic1 t1_irz82sf wrote

??? There's no prison on Plantation street.

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Granolapitcher t1_irz8c25 wrote

There’s a juvie on the UMass campus

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Gahlic1 t1_irz8l04 wrote

What? Where?

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Granolapitcher t1_irz8rso wrote

It’s the giant painted building with the girl and the flower off of route 9. They do a good job hiding it.

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Gahlic1 t1_irz9fff wrote

🧐. Nope

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Granolapitcher t1_irz9hyw wrote

Hiding what it actually is*

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Gahlic1 t1_irza4ju wrote

Nope. There's a nursing home, near the campus. Behind Biotech is Worc recovery, with an adolescent unit... maybe that's what your thinking of? That's psych, not jail.

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Granolapitcher t1_irzahor wrote

Guy- it’s a juvie. https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+leahy+center+worcester+ma&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS868US868&oq=paul+leahy&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j35i39j0i512l4.3333j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#trex=m_t:lcl_akp,rc_f:rln,rc_ludocids:14912845929835655820,ru_gwp:0%252C7,ru_lqi:Ch5wYXVsIGxlYWh5IGNlbnRlciB3b3JjZXN0ZXIgbWFaKiIecGF1bCBsZWFoeSBjZW50ZXIgd29yY2VzdGVyIG1hKggIAhAAEAEQApIBGWp1dmVuaWxlX2RldGVudGlvbl9jZW50ZXLgAQA,trex_id:Gh8E9&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D

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Gahlic1 t1_irzbbiw wrote

Oh yeah! That is on 323 Belmont St though.

The most notable thing about that used to be a basketball court with a high chain link fence topped with barbed wire.

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_irxt81w wrote

>Leave the street signs alone and dismantle the school-to-prison broken home-to-prison pipeline, already.

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Evergreen_76 t1_is1c4ix wrote

> Leave the street signs alone and dismantle the broken housing and wage economy-prison, broken education-prison, broken home-to-prison pipeline, police-prison industrial complex, already.

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Severe_East3735 t1_is025bj wrote

1000000% OP doesn't even make sense with their own logic since Novick already removed cops from schools. Making them unsafer 🤷‍♀️

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Fit_Coyote_7117 t1_is1lsyy wrote

Agreed. Worcester has far more serious problems. Get some genuine school reform. Some genuine childcare alternatives. Some genuine WFH opportunities for single parents. Anything but taking up time with this fucktangle of meaningless nonsense.

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ChanceTheGardenerr t1_is1skhz wrote

Fucktangle is the word I was looking for, thx

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_is8mmns wrote

It's a new one on me, I like it, it's so expressive and can be used so many ways. Would have worked well with the old Kelley Sq. Trying to get up after falling on skis or falling off the toilet when your drunk. Could describe a new way your ex wife's lawyer is trying to squeeze you or an adventure in bed gone amok. Drunk people in a fist fight on a cruise ship. Black Friday at Target. Any route out of Boston at rush hour on a Friday. The list is endless.

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ChanceTheGardenerr t1_is9o5oc wrote

Kelley Sq cured me of driving for Uber. A fucktangle of fucked-angles.

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_isafk0v wrote

In my day it was called a clusterfuck and the best way then to get through it was to take a deep breath, close your eyes and floor it. BTW at one time Kelley Sq was on the list of the ten worst intersections in the US. My understanding is that Lincoln Sq once was similarly configured and had train tracks running through it.

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