Both groups elicit frothing hatred in bourgeois hateful anglos.
I get called idealistic and naive a lot (usually with harsher vocab than that though) for thinking that the homeless are victims in need of protection and support. I kind of appreciate it now though because it lets me keep that rebellious young person vibe into my 30s
As someone who is just grnuine friends with a lot of homeless people in my town and when I lived in a bigger place with a couple roommates who had been on the streets or in prison and we gave people a couch to crash on, the homeless are just like…people. A lot will fuck you over and tske advantage cause they’ve been taught fuck or be fucked and then were really really really fucked by our system. There can for sure be a give a mouse a cookie factor that you gotta set limits and keep em enforced (most of the people thst came through in my situation were also crack and or opiate addicts). Homelessness and desperation can make you need or feel you need to do some pretty shitty things same with addiction but those are circumstantial factors that need to be handled realistically and not treated as the overall quality of someone’s character. You can judge a person but you can’t judge desperation or addiction, doesn’t mean you gotta take the shit that comes with it, but you gotta just tske that as part of being there to help people get fed and sheltered and warm and stuff
A few times in the past I’ve given rides to homeless guys or cash to them, sometimes just conversation even if that’s what they’re after. At the end of the day it’s not like I’m doing volunteer work, but treating any homeless person who approaches me with the same respect I would anyone else has so far left me unharmed and even helped–I’ve had homeless people help me change tires, for instance. I get the feeling that even with the damage to your mind that the stress of homeless can do, people are still people and people like to feel useful and respected.
In South Africa it’s foreigners. When people start going on about the Nigerians and Zimbabweans you know that you’re about to hear the most xenophobic shit in your life.
P sure if you just meet a white person in South Africa you can get ready for the most xenophobic shit in your life
Not really, xenophobia is more a problem amongst black Africans. Your average white South African knows jack shit about regional differences and culture. At most, white South Africans will like foreigners that are in the country illegally or undocumented, because they’ll work for cheap and harder and can be taken advantage of, because of the implication…
I see the point but I would point out that homeless people in the USA aren’t in general bound by any shared ethnic identity, geographic origin, culture, or body of languages that makes them an outgroup the way Roma in Europe are. I don’t see them as perfectly analogous at all. There’s even a world Romani congress whereas there is no such organization for homeless people. homeless people might tend to be from certain marginalized groups more often than not, but they aren’t inherently from any one group. Hope I make sense. Not trying to minimize anyone’s victimization here, just drawing a distinction.
The original comparison was limited to the frothing hatred that they elicit from Americans and Europeans respectively. Not saying the homeless are like the Roma of America or anything like that
It was me who mentioned it in the thread on how to detect people with sus political views. And looking at this thread, holy shit did I hit the bullseye
