It sounds like the first article isn't just 'oh noes, poor people' but something more like 'oh noes, seriously unruly & kinda scary people who are making some women in this camp feel unsafe', and I think there's a significant difference.
Having lived in the poorest part of Canada for years, I think it's important to make a distinction between supporting anti-poverty efforts (including housing, jobs, medical care etc for people living on the street) and being willing to live in unsafe conditions oneself out of solidarity. If the test of being a 'real lefty' becomes a willingness to run the gauntlet of verbal and sexual harassment in public, then there aren't going to be many women who count as 'real lefties', and it would be an obviously sexist movement.
I've never been to that camp, and I don't know what's transpiring, but if they're saying it's motivated partly by wanting to ensure the space feels safe for women then that strikes me as an important thing to be concerned about -- though obviously it's still open for debate whether they're not doing the right things to achieve that.
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Having lived in the poorest part of Canada for years, I think it's important to make a distinction between supporting anti-poverty efforts (including housing, jobs, medical care etc for people living on the street) and being willing to live in unsafe conditions oneself out of solidarity. If the test of being a 'real lefty' becomes a willingness to run the gauntlet of verbal and sexual harassment in public, then there aren't going to be many women who count as 'real lefties', and it would be an obviously sexist movement.
I've never been to that camp, and I don't know what's transpiring, but if they're saying it's motivated partly by wanting to ensure the space feels safe for women then that strikes me as an important thing to be concerned about -- though obviously it's still open for debate whether they're not doing the right things to achieve that.