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I'm a little confused, I'm pretty sure a lot of groups and domestic violence shelters already do this?

Do they not do exist in your area?

womens' support groups*

Of course they do. But depending on where you are, they can be terribly under-funded places with extremely limited resources. Many of them don't take pets, and there are women who fear to leave their pets behind with their abuser. They don't necessarily have the ability (again, funding) to provide all the services I listed. Ask anyone who volunteers for such organizations and they'll tell you the same thing.

All of that would be true for an "underground railroad" too. Or did you think the underground railroad was a well funded machine that was available everywhere and took everyone?

Maybe I am just hung up on the kind of ignorant use of underground railroad though. It sounds like what you really want is better funding and support for shelters and programs we already have. Which I agree with.

Tbh, I'm a bit hung up on that, too. I wonder what anon thinks the underground railroad was.

I have a feeling OP has no actual idea what the underground railroad was.

Call me jaded but I feel like the thread creator is a troll who wants to egg someone on to call them out on their bullshit so they can have bad faith arguments. Using the term "underground railroad" was a part of their multilayer scheme.

I can get with that conspiracy theory. I was thinking they were either privileged and uneducated, or young and uneducated. Or all of the above. But tbh the odds are more in favor of your theory in this particular space.

da

Maybe but ... I've interacted with a surprising amount of people IRL who take it for granted that the only way anything ever got done was with paid professionals who had a generous budget allocated to their social justice work. And they come up with ideas that are just as bizarre as this.

Anon, what do you think the underground railroad was? Because well-funded and bursting with resources it was not. It was run totally by volunteers, typically using their own personal funds, houses, and transportation; and by necessity, it was both secretive and prone to suddenly vanishing out of an area in which it used to be available.

I'm not sure what you're looking for if you think publicly funded resources are worse than a loose patchwork of private individuals operating outside the law.

Ngl imagining someone demanding an underground railroad, but that railroad better be at least business class is sending me

I demand to speak to the underground railroad's manager. The services rendered by your loose and not quite legal organization of individual volunteers are inadequate. I will leave a bad Yelp review

DA

"A business class seat on an Underground Railroad" amazing, I love it

We've actually had the occasional thing that resembled "the underground railroad - business class." But for much more limited services than the OP is suggesting. The Jane Clinic that was providing illegal (but free and safe) abortions in Chicago was run from private people's houses, and from what I've read, it was downright nice. It's kind of a shame that ever closed, because they were getting lower rates of complications than the hospitals and happier women who felt less dehumanized. And that, aside from the fact that they could provide abortions to anyone who needed one, and were only charging people who could afford to pay for it.

Yep, which is a wonderful thing to exist, and an entitled thing to say others should do while insisting you aren't able to help because you're not a millionaire

Did you mistake me for the OP of this thread? I was just commenting that not all versions of underground services were equally dangerous or rough on the people participating in them.

No, I was using the general "you" to describe the OP of this thread

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