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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by didntcheck on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:21AM (#39127711)
It's not just uncreative, I find it offensively patronizing. If I had no home, and someone told me "no, you're just unhoused!" I'd tell them to F off. A street corner (or car or whatever) is not my home (and if it really was my desired home then I'd not be in need of attention then). It's just trying to verbally paper over a problem and then claim you're in fact helping somehow
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by hiAndrewQuinn on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:46AM (#39127818)
I have a similar internal experience to 'land acknowledgements'. Saying thank you for this great land your group of people stole from this other group of people, with zero intention to give it back let alone backpay the years/decades/centuries of rent and reparations you must have accepted, is beyond repugnant. It would be better to say nothing at all.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by didntcheck on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:01AM (#39127912)
Yes, it looks like victor boasting. As a non-American I legitimately thought it was satire when I first heard of the practice
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by crazygringo on Thursday January 25, 2024 @11:09AM (#39131060)
> It's just trying to verbally paper over a problem and then claim you're in fact helping somehow

Yup, plenty of people say that's the entire reason for the euphemism treadmill. You look good using the new terminology but nobody is helped.

And the people actually affected by the problem generally aren't consulted, and don't care at all about the terminology because it's the least of their problems.

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