An important note on language use from @joshuaphilll:
“That distinction between ‘clean up’ and ‘destroy’ is crucial here. There’s been an alarmingly successful push to frame stealing the extremely limited belongings of people without housing as merely ‘sweeping’ or ‘cleaning up’ an area.“
https://spore.social/@joshuaphilll/112966256186699125
Practice it with me:
“The city stole the possessions of 50 people in the park today”
“Camp occupants and organizers received no notice before police arrived on Thursday and destroyed their possessions without compensation”
@inthehands I've found that the NextDoor crowd get really angry if you point out that their concern about house prices means they're putting a tangible, and quite low, financial value on the lives of their unhoused neighbors