Scenes like the one on my streetcar, and often far worse, have become common in our cities as Canada suffers through a triple epidemic of mental illness, addiction and homelessness
This is an extremely ignorant and privileged anecdote. Involuntary care would be fine if it was actually care. But what “involuntary care” actually means is cops attacking people, encaging people, drugging people, leeching and counter-productive “mental health care”, pseudo-science, etc…
The actual root problems (lack of housing, etc) are never attacked because the state/cops serve the capital that profits. The system of profiting from human needs requires human deprivation and suffering.
My fellow commuters exchanged nervous glances or stared blankly out the windows, trying to pretend nothing was happening.
Nothing was happening. What kind of creep would call for a violent police attack on this bus? This dude is trying to pretend that the housing crisis and abuse of the unhoused doesn’t exist.
This is an extremely ignorant and privileged anecdote. Involuntary care would be fine if it was actually care. But what “involuntary care” actually means is cops attacking people, encaging people, drugging people, leeching and counter-productive “mental health care”, pseudo-science, etc…
The actual root problems (lack of housing, etc) are never attacked because the state/cops serve the capital that profits. The system of profiting from human needs requires human deprivation and suffering.
Nothing was happening. What kind of creep would call for a violent police attack on this bus? This dude is trying to pretend that the housing crisis and abuse of the unhoused doesn’t exist.