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There are two distinct classes of the homeless - the situationally homeless, and the chronically homeless. Hell, even if we institutionalized most of these people the bulk of them won't ever 'get out of it'. That's like chaining someone up, giving them a nail file, and asserting that they have all the tools to get out of it. So you have a group of people who are, predominantly, suffering from a wide variety of mental illnesses that prevent them from functioning in life, and they have 'all the resources in the world' to get out of it. They can? Have you been homeless, or worked with the homeless? What do you think is a sufficient upside to convince someone to be hated by everyone around them, be addicted to all kinds of dangerous chemicals, shit on the streets, and sleep in their own filth?ĭo you also realize that the majority of the homeless population suffers from severe mental illnesses - severe enough to make them effectively non-functioning? Do you know the proportion of the homeless population who are veterans suffering from PTSD? > 'Especially when these people have all the resources in the world to get out of their situation. That said, you're also completely out to lunch. Pejorative or not, the homelessness in San Francisco is a substantial social and economic problem that does require something different than what we have right now, and whitewashing the language certainly isn't going to help matters.

I was annoyed by georgeorwell's self-righteous tone as well. It probably didn't do any good, I think I just felt like getting angry at someone. Fuck my life is getting bad now and nothing I do is working, I need some more of those things that make me feel good.'Įdit: I was mean here, so I apologize. If I called you a zombie for just blindly going along with the crackhead term that the author used, you would be offended, right? Are the thank-god-for-the-lowest-caste-so-that-I-can-not-belong-to-it opiates treating you well?ĭo you think that anybody living on the street addicted to drugs is feeling happy and fulfilled about it? I mean, it just doesn't go down like this: 'I've decided that despite the fact that drugs are bad for you, I'm going to totally allow them to fuck up and control my life and be homeless.' It's more like: 'I'm in a lot of pain, and hey for a couple hours if I do this I feel better.

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Do you think that if they aren't able to distinguish between reality and fantasy and are constantly being told to take pills by a health professional that they will miraculously decide not to take other drugs on the advice of a drug dealer? Although I hope at least you'd get a couple fuck you's if you tried it in person.ġ/3 of homeless people in the US have a serious mental illness like schizophrenia. Surprise, they aren't there to say anything back, not that they care at this point. We're talking about the most badly abused people in our society and you and the author are simply abusing them more with these words. If you want a name, say 'drug-addicted homeless person'. You don't casually use words like fag, dyke, tranny, bitch, ho, nigger, Indian (for native / aboriginal), and kyke, right?

Calling people crack-heads and shambling zombies is pejorative.

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