Molly Conger
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So I know this, you know, clean up the city rhetoric is sort of fascist in and of itself, right? That's scary rhetoric regardless. But pairing it with like back to back in the same breath, like we have to clean up the city. We have to get rid of BLM Plaza.
Like, are you saying being reminded that black people have civil liberties is dirty to you, that that's what's making the city dirty is the black people?
Like, are you saying being reminded that black people have civil liberties is dirty to you, that that's what's making the city dirty is the black people?
Like, are you saying being reminded that black people have civil liberties is dirty to you, that that's what's making the city dirty is the black people?
I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what to tell you.
Even in the best case scenario, even the most organized clearing of an encampment is I mean, it's violent and it's inhumane and it doesn't really serve a greater purpose other than, I don't know, so that people don't have to think about homelessness on their way to work. But there is a way to do it that is at least theoretically could result in something that is not.
Even in the best case scenario, even the most organized clearing of an encampment is I mean, it's violent and it's inhumane and it doesn't really serve a greater purpose other than, I don't know, so that people don't have to think about homelessness on their way to work. But there is a way to do it that is at least theoretically could result in something that is not.
Even in the best case scenario, even the most organized clearing of an encampment is I mean, it's violent and it's inhumane and it doesn't really serve a greater purpose other than, I don't know, so that people don't have to think about homelessness on their way to work. But there is a way to do it that is at least theoretically could result in something that is not.
You know, I mean, like I said, there's no good way to clear an encampment unless you're giving everyone an apartment. But right, like giving people two weeks notice, let social services get involved, lets them go, you know, tent to tent for those two weeks, talking to people about where they could go, giving them options, connecting them with services if that's what they choose.
You know, I mean, like I said, there's no good way to clear an encampment unless you're giving everyone an apartment. But right, like giving people two weeks notice, let social services get involved, lets them go, you know, tent to tent for those two weeks, talking to people about where they could go, giving them options, connecting them with services if that's what they choose.
You know, I mean, like I said, there's no good way to clear an encampment unless you're giving everyone an apartment. But right, like giving people two weeks notice, let social services get involved, lets them go, you know, tent to tent for those two weeks, talking to people about where they could go, giving them options, connecting them with services if that's what they choose.
Like, but if you're just rolling up overnight and throwing people's shit away, you're not you're not solving a problem. You're not even trying to solve a problem. You're not even pretending that you're trying to solve a problem.
Like, but if you're just rolling up overnight and throwing people's shit away, you're not you're not solving a problem. You're not even trying to solve a problem. You're not even pretending that you're trying to solve a problem.
Like, but if you're just rolling up overnight and throwing people's shit away, you're not you're not solving a problem. You're not even trying to solve a problem. You're not even pretending that you're trying to solve a problem.
Right. Because for him, it's not it's not about getting these people connected to services so that they might eventually find stable housing. It's about I don't want to fucking see these people because they're gross.
Right. Because for him, it's not it's not about getting these people connected to services so that they might eventually find stable housing. It's about I don't want to fucking see these people because they're gross.
Right. Because for him, it's not it's not about getting these people connected to services so that they might eventually find stable housing. It's about I don't want to fucking see these people because they're gross.
They'll go somewhere else. And now they now their lives have been uprooted. They don't have maybe the documents got thrown away and it's going to be even harder for them to find stability. Like you have not addressed the problem.