The disturbing part of this is how desensitized people are to certain kinds of violence, specifically state violence. Charging someone $3000/month for insulin

The disturbing part of this is how desensitized people are to certain kinds of violence, specifically state violence. Charging someone $3000/month for insulin without which they will die? Preventing the import of the same thing from Canada at a fraction of the cost? That's quite literally state violence. Housing (shelter) is one of humanity's basic needs. Denying this to people is again, quite literally, state violence. It's not market conditions that made this happen. It's not population growth. It's deliberate policy at every level of government. Yet one person steals from CVS or breaks into a car and people lose their minds. As a society we will deploy the police state at a moment's notice in the case of property crime. Think about that. In the US in particular, housing policy is a key tool in economic segregation, which is the replacement to literal segregation that was slowly made technically illegal post-WW2. What do I mean by this? Redlining is an obvious example. A big one is the GI Bill, that provided cheap mortgages and free education to returning white servicemen. Coinciding with the flight to the suburbs, this created generational wealth. This allows future generations to live in those "nicer" areas and have access to better amenities. This is what I mean by "economic segregation". The "riffraff" are simply priced out. And since so many amenities like education are funded in large part from property taxes, the wealthier areas get more and more of an advantage. Some people like to say "I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal". This betrays a deep misunderstanding of what systemic racism actually is. Many think racism is just using a bad word. It's not. It's the continued disenfranchisement of entires groups of people through economics, government policy and the police state.