I don’t know, I was looking for Discord servers and I found one for people like me that said “this isn’t a safe space, but it’s a comfortable place.” I don’t use Discord much, is there a difference?
Are “safe spaces” bad? I mean, the only knowledge I have of it is the post as well as other posts I’ve seen with people that tell you to censor literally any little thing because it “triggers their PTSD”.
it’s deeper than that. the people who insist on this are… people who want to obfuscate the problems. because the reality of them are too harsh for them to emotionally accept.
The truth is there are legit homeless people… people who actively refuse shelters and social services and prefer to live on the streets, many of whom are criminal and can’t be in the shelters because they want to use drugs, abuse people, and steal shit… but the acknowledgement of this is not possible for people who insist ‘no they are just not getting enough help/stigmatized’. these are the types of folk who think everyone is inherently good and wonderful and it’s the evil bad world that made them bad people…
Most homeless folks are only temporarily homeless and most are like living out of a car or other temporary situation.
But those folks can’t acknowledge any complexity of any issue. because it terrifies them that other people are different than them… or exist outside of the limits of their small imaginations… so they want to shrink the world to fit into their comfortable headspace with euphemisms. and they want to naively believe that all problems are just because ‘other people are mean’ or something that’s kindergarten level way of looking at the world.
And you’ll notice the people who push these agendas… often come from wealthy privledged backgrounds… part of their whole shtick is using euphemisms so they don’t have to feel guilty about their own privileges… privileges which they are actively hostile to in other people but refuse to acknowledge in themselves. they will go so far to claim not being homeless makes you ‘privledged’ but won’t acknowledge that they live in a condo their parents bought for them, while you rent with 2 roommates, etc.
If you ask me it’s just a product of very sheltered people who are basically ‘allergic’ to reality because they never had to deal with it, like these folks never lived in a place where homelessness was a problem, so they can’t understand how it is a problem for anyone else, and if you got robbed/assaulted by a homeless person, you deserved it or something. And if you grew up in a town with problems like homeless and drug use where everyday things… you are basically evil and awful in these people’s eyes.
I grew up in a diverse town with a poverty rate of 15%. I had friends in grammar school who were sometimes homeless. I meet people now who grew up in towns with 3-4% poverty rates… which are mostly just old folks on social security.