CBC:
Usually a “mean tweets” video ends in laughter, but this one ends in tears.
A new campaign by the non-profit organization Raising the Roof features people dealing with homelessness reading the mean things people have said about them on social media aloud.
The goal? To get people to see that those who have nowhere to live are human beings too.
Having been homeless myself for a period of time, I felt the pain these people went through as they read these cruel and pointless tweets. If you can help, please do. If you can’t, leave these people alone.
That’s seriously honest stuff you just revealed about yourself, Shawn.
I meant to add – Respect.
I am nothing if not always as completely honest as I possibly can be – to a fault.
Thanks.
Still, there is a huge chasm between honesty and openness. That’s brutal honesty and openness right here. I am going to take your lesson to heart. Not that I’ll stop giving you grief if I disagree with you 🙂
Some homeless can be a menace if they are addicted or insane, but I agree that they deserve to be treated as fellow human beings and should not be mocked or laughed at.
We’ve got homeless not far from our home. I wish I could do more for them, but I do support a few groups that are trying.
However, the behaviour of other people in this area is just disgusting. Including the city dumping manure on them, and people dumping garbage on them. How badly do you have to fail as an empathic human being before you reach the point of dumping on the homeless?
No buts needed, really. I have been homeless as well… can happen to anyone. You might be surprised how many addicted and/or “insane” people there are who own their own homes. All life should be treated with respect.
Dumping manure on them? What the? What was the excuse for that? I can’t even imagine.
I can’t imagine, either. But the manure was actually a city thing.
I like to think it cost the guy the election, but there were other factors involved. 🙂
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/05/City-of-Abbotsford-admits-dumping-chicken-manure-homeless/
It is criminal that anyone is homeless, especially in Canada, which still has a halfway functional political system, and is mostly too damn cold to be homeless.
In Utah, if you are homeless, they give you a house, rent-free. And that costs fewer tax dollars than leaving the people on the street. Most people who are given one of these homes get a job soon after, and they pay 25% of their wages as rent. And building the houses boosts the economy by providing construction jobs. Some of the construction workers are formerly homeless. That is the model for every government, everywhere. Where this does not yet exist, we should be disrupting meal time at high-end restaurants with protests.
Most people think homeless people deserve to be homeless, but they are overwhelmingly just regular people who, for example, had their apartment building burn down and ended up on the street.