I strongly object to referring to people as "the homeless." That is as dehumanizing as it is to refer to undocumented people as "illegals." As long as we continue to use dehumnizing language to describe people in need, then the longer "many supposedly enlightened souls involves believing the downtrodden are less-than-humans with moral or mental health failings who need to just.go.away.
These are human beings. They have the exact same needs every human being has. Unfortunately due to whatever circumstances, they find themselves in desperate need.
The first step to resolving their desperate need to develop compassion, recognize our common humanity. We need to stop building luxury apartment buildings and build apartments for those without homes. We need to provide medical care, oh, you know as well as I what is needed.
Doug, I have to take issue with your comment "One need look no further than the pearl clutching over a proposal by Democratic politicians for an encampment on a little-used part of Balboa Park to recognize the universality of disgust over unhoused humans.".
The pushback against this has little or nothing to do with this specific proposal, it has to do with legal uses of dedicated park land as laid out in Section 55 of the San Diego City Charter. Housing the unhoused, or building a police headquarters, or a new library, or a private nonprofit charter school on dedicated park land, as have been proposed in the past, would be violations of the City Charter. All require a 2/3 vote of approval by the City's voters. Even the SD High School issue (30 acres of dedicated park land) had to go to the voters. At what point does the rest of the camel follow its nose into the tent?
I strongly object to referring to people as "the homeless." That is as dehumanizing as it is to refer to undocumented people as "illegals." As long as we continue to use dehumnizing language to describe people in need, then the longer "many supposedly enlightened souls involves believing the downtrodden are less-than-humans with moral or mental health failings who need to just.go.away.
These are human beings. They have the exact same needs every human being has. Unfortunately due to whatever circumstances, they find themselves in desperate need.
The first step to resolving their desperate need to develop compassion, recognize our common humanity. We need to stop building luxury apartment buildings and build apartments for those without homes. We need to provide medical care, oh, you know as well as I what is needed.
Doug, I have to take issue with your comment "One need look no further than the pearl clutching over a proposal by Democratic politicians for an encampment on a little-used part of Balboa Park to recognize the universality of disgust over unhoused humans.".
The pushback against this has little or nothing to do with this specific proposal, it has to do with legal uses of dedicated park land as laid out in Section 55 of the San Diego City Charter. Housing the unhoused, or building a police headquarters, or a new library, or a private nonprofit charter school on dedicated park land, as have been proposed in the past, would be violations of the City Charter. All require a 2/3 vote of approval by the City's voters. Even the SD High School issue (30 acres of dedicated park land) had to go to the voters. At what point does the rest of the camel follow its nose into the tent?