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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by willravel
Yes, when they're young and their teacher asks them what they want to be when they grow up, they scratch their little heads and proudly proclaim: "I want to be a vagrant! I want to sleep in a cardboard box and eat trash and desperately beg people for help! I want to live in front of a McDonald's and crap behind a McDonald's because I don't have the means for basic human needs like food and shelter! I hope someday people will look down on me as less than human!!" Then they go eat clay.
That you could, with a straight face, say that homeless people WANT to be homeless means that not only do you not know the first thing about the homeless, but your ability to read people is pretty messed up.
I look down on people, too. I look down on people who don't put any work into figuring things out and sit their on their soap box assuming they know everything. You're satisfied to ignore the plight of the homeless, but you sure are ready and waiting to judge them, aren't you? Well, I now judge you. I say that you're wrong for ignoring the homeless, but that's forgivable because not everyone cares about suffering. I say that you're very, very wrong for making the assumption that they want to be homeless (wtf?!), and that's not forgivable. Ban me if you want, but I think that misrepresenting the less fortunate like that is pretty horrible of you.
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I ignore the plight of the homeless? Because I don't give change to the guy on the sidewalk????? WTF is that?
If I give to organizations and assist my local charities like Henry Street Settlement and I don't give to the local fuckard who'd rather stay on the streets because of drug addition and alcholism makes me a bad person? Because that's what your implication is.
I don't assume I know anything, in fact, I'm the first to admit I know nothing. I've not made any assumptions in this thread but speak from my FIRST HAND experience however that comes.
I'm sorry my friend, it is YOU who is on a soap box. To tie this back into the OP, it's MY parents who immigrated here. It is me who had to sleep on the floor because I had relatives who were trying to move to the US legally. It is ME who has disdain for those people who care not to follow the immigration laws.
It is YOU who speaks on a soap box preaching you know how it is because you housed and fed them once in your past. YOU preaching how bad it is in Mexico with high unemployment and poor educational system. YOU preaching how altruistic you are.
No my friend, I think you need to see where your feet are standing, it seems to look like a soap box to me.
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