cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/10145550
I dunno why y’all WANT park benches to become homeless beds and parks to become encampments. I come from a country with shanty towns that used to be parks and that shit is not the answer. Anyone who feels benches should be for sleeping homeless is free to let them sleep in their yard, or open their homes and let a few crash Inn their living room. But I know they won’t.
I WANT everyone to be taxed to provide basic, ventilated, plumbed, string free shelter for the fellow citizens and human beings we failed the most. Their situation is our national shame and responsibility, same with our largest on earth prison population, and not even per capita. That’s on all of us, despite the fact most of us shitbag twist it into being their faults when it isn’t a problem in the developed world that cares about what matters like quality education, actual rehabilitation, and mental Healthcare for all.
Not letting them sleep in my bed is not the same thing as someone bitching about human beings dying of exposure and police harassment in our name despite our gold plated shithole’s self-bragging prosperity and generosity because herp derp those PEOPLE threaten my PROPERTY VALUES.
That kind of thinking is sociopathic. We aren’t Haiti, we have resources. We just choose to use them to further enrich the significant capital hoarders and brainstorm new and exciting ways to murder people at scale thousands of miles away. You know, to throw on the pile and sell to other nations. That’s the one thing we’re good at, mass murder exports.
I want homeless people to have a place even if our society can’t provide proper ones, yes.
Maybe we could use all the time, effort, and money spent on hostile architecture on shelter. Instead we throw resources into park benches that suck at being benches.
This is a nonsense take. We want park benches. We can’t just redirect money for park benches to shelter. Cities aren’t spending a bunch of money developing these things. Someone already designed it and they just pick it from the available options.
Besides I’d be willing to bet this is another art instalation, like the other 20 times Lemmy got it’s knickers in a twist about a bench.
Yeah, it’s possible/probable that it was a dick move by some planning committee. But if I were wheelchair bound, I could imagine that being a) acknowledged and b) in the middle — instead of always off to the side — could be nice.
How many wheelchair users have backless chairs? Like, this isn’t even a good design if it WAS actually intended for them. With that back part any wheelchair user would end up sitting slightly forward from the people sitting on the actual bench seat, possibly a good 6+ inches forward if it bumps into the handles on the back.
Lol as if people couldn’t just park their wheelchair beside the bench
The bench in the background isn’t like that. You would think it they were trying to prevent someone from sleeping there, it would be that way too.
This feels like a disguised way to not let people sleep on the bench.
