Is it just me or the borderline fascist anti-homeless rhetoric just simply out of control? Not only do you have entire topics with hundreds of posts advocating for forced institutionalization, calls for vigilante violence, and downright genocidal discussions daily – the mods seem completely absent at all from these topics. Scroll to the bottom and you see 10-20 down voted posts that are unbanned accounts that are outright calling for or admitting to committing violence openly.
The only thing they respond to and delete are people who push back against these people – certain community members (in particular a member with two street names as their handle) on that reddit are so aggressive with reporting to reddit admins directly that almost anyone who would argue back has been banned.
The entire subreddit is landlords just astroturfing for Springfield-esque laws to outlaw being homeless, in a town with eviction rates that have spiked 18% since '22 (statistic from DHS report 2023) and in a state that has used state and federal welfare funds to prevent 83,000 evictions and counting since January '23 (stat from Gov. Tina’s report on homelessness, Jan. '24). Our state is drowning in corruption embezzles funds and misused capital and we are indulging and breeding right-wing hatred on our cities main social media outlet.
Can someone do something about the apparent fact that the entire mod crew of /r/Eugene are Nazi adjacent right-wingers who have cultivated an echo chamber of shit?
It’s not that they’re nazi-adjacent right wingers, it’s that people in Eugene are getting serious compassion fatigue over some categories of crime or quality of life impacts which they blame generally on “the homeless”, which, to be fair, is a group of people who cause many of these problems. For understandable reasons? Yes, many times. Is it more the government’s fault than theirs? Yes, often. But it doesn’t change that people have very real reasons for being upset and pointing the finger in the direction they point it, and the tactic of just shouting down these people as being anti-homeless or compassionless or bootlickers really isn’t working any more.
I’m a person who says “fuck the police” at pretty much every opportunity. I also understand people’s very real concerns about randomized violence in the streets caused by people in the homeless population and the city’s total lack of initiative in solving anything of these problems.
It used to be only nazis and far-right people complained about “the homeless”, it was a boogeyman they essentially created and vastly over-stated the impact of to further right wing agendas. That’s no longer the case, mainly due to changes in the economy and drug markets. I personally have had several very uncomfortable interactions with homeless folks in this town, in two unrelated instances in a single year I have had my life threatened out of nowhere by a homeless person. There are whole parts of town I don’t go to because of that, and I’m a white dude, I’m sure my experiences pale in comparison to people from other parts of our community.
It’s very sad. I saw someone describe unhoused encampments as “capitalism refugee camps” and that’s what they will forever be to me.