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Homelessness (fedia.io)

submitted 3 months ago by xfreed@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (12 children)

I'm too European to get it. What is the message?

Edit: I do get it now. I was lost in translation.

In Germany, we got two terms that translate to homelessness in English: Obdachlosigkeit (literally "shelterlessness"), defined as living on the street, and Wohnungslosigkeit (literally "appartmentlessness"), defined as lacking a living space rented or owned. "Wohnungslose" people live mostly in communal owned homes or with friends/acquaintances.

So, for me, understanding "homelessness" as "Obdachlosigkeit", this cartoon was hard to grasp.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't imagine seeing this and immediately turning it into a international dick measuring contest. Maybe have some compassion instead of just making a "Sucks to be you" comment.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think this reply makes clear it was an honest question.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Being "too European" is clearly meant to be a slight (ie "My life is too good to understand this"), and honestly a naive one since it's not like European countries have no homeless people.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't have homeless people in Europe? The message is that not all homeless look like the guy in the first panel. There are all of these "invisible" homeless that go unseen because they don't fit the stereotype.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

We do have homeless people in Europe/Germany.

Thank you for your explanation. My problems understanding these panels were

The kids in the panels. TIL, it is possible for kids to be homeless in the US. It's hard for me to imagine that a society would let there kids be homeless. We got kids who fled from home and do not accept any help, thus being homeless in Germany as well, but these kids are on the run, not in schools or in cars with their mother.
The idea that a woman having a car and a kid might be homeless is totally alien to me, as well. The only possibility I can think of how this could happen is if she just ran away spontaneously neglecting all help she could get – that does happen, of course, and probably I'm just too naive.

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[–] Rogers@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The message is that it's not only the unwashed pan handlers that are homeless. There are a lot of people that are or have been productive members of society that still become homeless. In the US a lot of the obvious homeless have major mental health conditions so many just assume that's the main issue behind the majority of homless. When in reality it's low wages that don't keep up with inflation let alone inceases in cost of living

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[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

If you think the solution to the homeless is the government, then let me point to the government letting in millions of people (in america), and almost none of them dont have homes. The government doesnt give a shit about you, they are not the solution.

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