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mokkikunta discovered 6 months ago- Outlawing the Poor " Nashville's new class war pits the down-and-out against up-and-comers and their powerful allies" "Downtown Nashville is the Galapagos Islands of a Darwinian drama pitting the ambitious young professionals of luxury lofts and condos against the hard-luck denizens of heat grates and dingy back alleys. It’s not hard to predict which species will survive." “They don’t want to see poor people,” he says. “They want the ability to walk down the street without feeling guilt when they see that disparity. They realize how good they’re living while somebody else is suffering on the street. They just want to pretend it doesn’t exist. Because if you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist, then you start to ask yourself too many questions, and you start having an existential crisis. ‘How am I going to ride around in my BMW or my Hummer without feeling guilty?’ It’s hard for them. Nobody wants to suffer an existential crisis.”
- digits rated 6 months ago
Nashville Outlawing the Poor
Police are cooperating by handing out hundreds of $50 citations for trespassing, public drunkenness and basically being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The city calls them "quality of life" violations, but street people say it's their quality of life--pathetic as it may be--that's actually violated. The homeless are sometimes rousted from their cardboard-box sleeping places in parking garages, handed citations and shooed away to fend for themselves in the freezing night. If they don't pay the $50 fines, which they can't do, they could go to jail next time.
Another triumph for the new urban lifestyle: Begging is now illegal everywhere after dark. During the daytime, it's illegal at any bus stop, sidewalk cafe or school or within 25 feet of an ATM or bank or within 10 feet of the entrance or exit of any business or anywhere around any place with a "No Solicitation" sign. Got that?
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I think it might be a form of synchronicity that in Stumbling this article and writing this snippet that I noticed my tags. Turns out that this article I would tag homelessness and poverty is sharing company with yet another article I tagged with Tennessee also. [These are the only two Stumbles I have tagged with Tennessee and yet they both are germaine to poverty and homelessness.]If you click the Tennessee tag you'll see straight away what I mean.
- Trippy-Hippie rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Outlawing the Poor Nashvilleā€s new class war pits the down-and-out against up-and-comers and their powerful allies"
- chipsandsalsa rated 6 months ago
- There's a huge difference between investing $15 million in city development and throwing away $2 million on lazy drunks. What do you want the city to do? Buy them one of those fancy condos, furnish it, buy them a car, clothes, etc? That's ridiculous. There are probably some down-on-their-luck homeless people, and help is available for them, but most of them put themselves in the position they're in.
- rssn rated 6 months ago
- How hard is it to get a job flipping burgers?
- eskimowarlord rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Nashvilleā€s new class war pits the down-and-out against up-and-comers and their powerful allies by Jeff Woods"
- stevedtrm rated 6 months ago
- US fascists dont even want to see the domestic poverty their masters cause.
From the page: "businesses slapped up ā€oePlease Help, Donā€t Giveā€¯ signs, telling tourists not to assist panhandlers because thatā€s a ā€oelose/lose situation.ā€¯ Hereā€s the advice offered on the handy palm-sized cards that the businesses are distributing: When you encounter a panhandler, always walk with certainty and confidence.Choose to respond politely, If you dial 2-1-1, they can help you" - US fascists dont even want to see the domestic poverty their masters cause.
- Quenthel rated 6 months ago
- Stupid people. If only they could get in the shoes of those who they fine...
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