plum-soup:It’s so insane how you can deliberately make a city incredibly hostile to poor people and
plum-soup:It’s so insane how you can deliberately make a city incredibly hostile to poor people and then when they turn to violence to feed themselves or shit/use drugs in the streets because there aren’t any decent public toilets/safe injection sites to use they’re suddenly a result of San Francisco’s historical reputation as having a tolerance for societal outcasts. In reality San Francisco has changed drastically and is becoming less tolerant by the day, although to be fair there has always been a lot of intolerance in that city that people chose to ignore because it didn’t fit with the fun gay pride image they present to the world. San Francisco has been ground zero for gentrification and neoliberal “diversity equity and inclusion” politics and this is the direct result of that. It has nothing to do with tolerance and everything to do with money, real estate, and neoliberal politics -- source link