0: Ronald Reagan 1986
1: Drugs are literally addictive and they don’t have any money
2: There’s not much else to do when you don’t have your own space
3: It is less demoralizing than trying to offer hungry homeless people food and seeing them immediately lose interest
That person asking you for money probably wants drugs. They probably are too distracted to have an actual conversation with you because it has been too long since their last hit. If you have an acquaintance relationship with this person, a protracted conversation should be considered rude because you are preventing their acquisition of change and dollars for drugs. You don’t have to take it as an indictment on their character and you can still give them money!
Furthermore I do not think this take is racist when Black homeless people ask you for money. You’re still homeless, there’s still not shit to do on these streets, you are asking me for money, I know you are trying to get some drugs.
edit: hell yeah i won. i have allocated $40 to central Lexington, Winchester road crack guys to celebrate
One of these guys hit a council worker in the back of the head with a brick and killed him. Thats a guy who works every day to the betterment of the country, a guy who has kids and a family killed because people like you with suicidal empathy think its acceptable for mentally ill people to do drugs around the general public. Why cant they be moved out of the city? Why cant they be put in prison? Why are you people so insistent that they must they be allowed to roam freely to snap and attack the general public at any moment. The right may have destroyed my country but they cleaned up the hobo’s in the city. If only the left would drop this stupid position of jumping on a sword for methheads.
So? Sober, housed people do that shit, too. And tons of homeless people use drugs and don’t hurt anyone every day. This is a really narrow minded argument.
And? The homeless guy doing drugs to deal with his unmedicated schizophrenia, because people like you love to treat them like a problem that can be ignored and shuffled off might have had a family and loved ones too.
Because that’s their home. They are your suffering neighbours.
Because addiction and homelessness are not crimes.
See my previous points.
They just moved mentally ill or chronically suffering people to someone else’s neighborhood or threw them in jail to become slaves.
I am one bad diagnosis from possibly becoming a methhead, I am nowhere near to being some rich fuck the right wing cares about.
These are my people, I will protect them. I will not become a traitor to my class for a weak argument from a dickhead like you.