bigoted people who don't know anything about the history of brutalism in architecture, and how it's a deeply humanized movement that avoids facades and promotes awareness & fascination of function & utility rather than hiding it.

also homelessness.

also your entire account. https://twitter.com/Western_Trad/status/1277325433340657665

like yeah, brutalism can come off as oppressive and intimidating and cold, especially if you ignore the entirety of brutalist interior design, but to consider it the most depressing thing imagineable? get real, kid.

you clearly haven't seen what's going on in the world.

Biggest takeaway:

If you honestly think that a purposefully cold movement is more depressing than homelessness, fear, injustice, and the genuinely disasterous state of the world, it definitely shows that you'd rather hide the ugly things in life with a facade.

I'm not saying that brutalism is a positive thing, or to defend monoliths of concrete, but it is fascinatingly telling that they arbitrarily blame this completely unrelated movement on people who want change to fix what our government tries to hide from the public.

It's like saying "how dare they expose our disturbingly common injustices, we look so horrible with them out in the open, you wouldn't want to live in a world like that right?"