• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s caused by racists

    Racists who are angry about…?

    At least you admit that racism is a thing, so you’re not completely bonkers.

    Now let’s pull back the analogy. We were comparing racism to mental disorders and drug use, right? Do you admit those are in fact things which exist?

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      1 year ago

      They’re not angry about the color of their skin. If you think that they are then you really don’t understand racism. There are plenty of places in the world where two very similar groups are racist to each other over extremely minor differences that most outsiders would overlook.

      Make your point or don’t I’m not playing along with your rhetorical framing.

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        1 year ago

        Fine, let’s go back a bit.

        Your stance is that the mental/substance abuse aspects of many homeless people is in no way, in whole or in part, a cause of their homelessness. Correct?

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          No my stance is and always was that a single unsourced statistic that “80% of homeless people experience lifelong mental illness” is not proof that mental illness causes homelessness. Especially when presented without comtext to compare it to.