Comments by "Chompy the Beast" (@chompythebeast) on "Victorian London's Most Dangerous Slum (Fenian Barracks)" video.

  1. Thank you so much for these analyses of the history of early modern poverty. A great deal has changed in the last hundred and a half years or so, but one thing that has certainly not changed enough is the criminalization of poverty, and the refusal of classist systems of power to act with the knowledge that the vast majority of crime or anti-social behavior is the result of unmet physical or psychological needs, not the result of inborn traits
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  2. We are obligated, as members of society, to see to it that our neighbors are not left wanting the fundamental needs of life itself. I pity the mugger more than I do the posh socialite who regularly turns his nose up at his struggling fellow human beings and supports a classist system that keeps them struggling. But it isn't about who we elect to pity―if we want it to stop, the only real solution is to address the root causes of such crimes. Crackdown, the most common and most ignorant response, simply doesn't work. What is needed is to foster a civilization which actively attempts to prevent the circumstances which lead to poverty rather than actively and deliberately manufacturing poverty as our current societies do. Class divisions create this inequity, and they create a breeding ground for crime
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