i disagree with the premise that it's great when applied to homeless folks. we are all one step from homelessness and i've said that even before the housing bubble and burst. homelessness is a grim reality for many more that weren't homeless just a few years ago, hell just a few months ago. and many more will enter into homelessness before this is over. we are a very unfriendly nation when it comes to our homeless. we really need to gravely reconsider the state of our homeless situations. we make, via laws, homelessness a horrible void from which there is little escape. i think people don't realize how expensive it is to be poor, let alone homeless and not just for those that are trapped in it.
i really despise the idea that a homeless person is something "we shouldn't see". we actually should see it as a reminder that they are still people and they still should be entitled basic human rights and needs. it disgusts me the way we treat our homeless.
edited to add.....i dunno why everyone is so shocked and appalled by the protesters being subject to the same laws that the homeless are subject to. i don't consider myself better than anyone else. i find it appalling that people should think they are somehow above a lower class of human and therefore should be treated differently or better.
/mad as hell rant
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