Letters From The Wasteland

Letters From The Wasteland

America's Treatment of the Homeless Was A Harbinger of the Current Fascist Regime

Criminalization of being homeless is where cruelty being the point was perfected

Thad Zajac
Apr 03, 2025
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Homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row, 2022.—Los Angeles Times.

Grants Pass v. Johnson was decided last year by the Supreme Court, in which they ruled along the predictable ideological lines that the criminalization of homelessness was perfectly constitutional. Why, you might ask, would they do that? On what grounds could they argue it was le…

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