Why does the bathroom at the starmarket in td garden blueSubmitted by EnvironmentalCable69 t3_z41ckw in boston
Shelby-Stylo t1_ixqhrwg wrote
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I take “symbolic violence” and “oppressive interventions” to mean that the study’s authors find it abhorrent that anybody would do anything to prevent open drug use.
lpn122 t1_ixqqva2 wrote
It literally says above that the blue lights don’t really deter drug use and instead can make it more likely for IV users to hurt themselves—but the lights are installed anyway because the store owners are being symbolically violent toward the drug users, that is, hoping they harm themselves because drug users deserve to be harmed.
TecumsehSherman t1_ixrcdg9 wrote
>, that is, hoping they harm themselves because drug users deserve to be harmed.
Or maybe they're hoping that a young kid shopping with his family for dinner doesn't stumble on an OD victim just because he has to pee?
lpn122 t1_ixrhaev wrote
I’m not saying that it’s wrong for stores to try to prevent people from using drugs in the bathrooms, I was just explaining the symbolic violence of the blue lights.
PM_ME_SUMDICK t1_ixsduep wrote
They're more likely to stumble on the OD victim in the blue lit bathroom.
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