👆 this. Thanks for this comment - I didn't even get to touch on the sheet magnitude of the false equivalence above, this says it well.

You're right, this was less an argument and more an observation. To that end, out of all the examples I can think of, this is the most blatant "saying the quiet part out loud" that comes to mind.

We can agree there. It's my firm belief that most "us vs them" dichotomies are carefully fed & guided to distract from the real disparity of "rich vs poor".

However in the meantime, at the end of the day all that matters is the average quality of life for each and every person. It's important to remember that, with some major twists and turns, progressive views have always prevailed in the long run. The world inherently progresses, and there's only so much someone can drag their feet in a progressing world.

You're right! It's almost as if the whole system is stacked against certain people no matter where they live.

But go ahead and ask any person of colour if they'd rather live in SF, or Harrison AK (or any of the deep south for that matter).

This is a sign that further progressive policy & sentiment is needed everywhere, not that we should give up trying and regress to the 50s.

See, I'm a very agreeable person and I'm so tempted to openly discuss with a level-headed, articulate argument such as this.

But then you take another read of the actual content and see just how detached from reality it is, and there is no middle ground with that. I'm out.

It's just so hilarious to me that of all terms to be co-opted by the right and turned into a colloquial insult, when you spend 10 seconds actually thinking about the meaning it becomes clear that they just want their opposition to roll over and "go back to sleep"

Um, no. One side wants equity & societal progression. The other wants to regress to the 1950s so they don't have to see a spooky scary black person living in their neighborhood.

"Woke", as in "Awake"... As in the alternative to "Asleep"? It always comes off as just being upset that people are aware of what you're doing.

See, you lost me when trying to use "woke" as a derogatory 🙄

"experiencing homelessness" is decent but wtf is "justice-involved" supposed to convey without context lol.

I also particularly like the term "houseless" because it really drives home that the issue is a lack of housing, not necessarily an abject moral failure.

Something something the humanity

Ngl this is real "orphan crushing machine" vibes