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No,I don't want homeless kids from being discouraged from hanging out in the library just because they stink and make rich people uncomfortable. Just because so

No,I don't want homeless kids from being discouraged from hanging out in the library just because they stink and make rich people uncomfortable. Just because some folks don't acknowledge the dark side of the USA, where is little/no support for your fellow citizens who fall off the train, doesn't mean you can grind them down even more.

emodendroket 9y ago
Ultimately trying to devise measures to keep homeless people out of a library is curing a symptom rather than a problem.
Turing_Machine 9y ago
Only "rich people" are bothered by smelly, loud, violent people, and only "kids" are homeless? Uh-huh. Can the histrionic rhetoric, dude. It's not working.
- mbfg 9y ago
  Perhaps not only, but i'm guessing there's a strong correlation there.
  - Turing_Machine 9y ago
    You're totally wrong. And I'm not guessing.
Turing_Machine 9y ago
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. How dare you? How dare you? For one, "rich people" don't usually hang out at the library. They can afford to buy books, videos, and their own computers. The people who bear the brunt of an unusable library are middle and lower class people, especially kids. I know, I was one of them. We were quite poor when I was a kid. I'm talking "didn't have electricity or running water" poor, for extended periods of time. Every couple of weeks, we'd go to "town" (population ~1,500, but it had a library). The adults would drop me off there to read and check out books while they did their errands. I really don't know what would have become of me without that -- we sure couldn't afford to buy books. Would they have left me in the library if it had been full of aggressive, stinky, masturbating drunks? No. Nor should they have. No parent would. What you are saying is that the rights of those who use the library as a sleep-off shelter/shooting gallery/public masturbation facility should take precedence over the rights of those who are there to use the library for its intended purpose. Including younger me. Including every child with the urge to learn, but whose family can't afford books. That is an utterly reprehensible position. Once again: how DARE you?

emodendroket 9y ago

Ultimately trying to devise measures to keep homeless people out of a library is curing a symptom rather than a problem.

Turing_Machine 9y ago

Only "rich people" are bothered by smelly, loud, violent people, and only "kids" are homeless? Uh-huh. Can the histrionic rhetoric, dude. It's not working.

mbfg 9y ago
Perhaps not only, but i'm guessing there's a strong correlation there.
- Turing_Machine 9y ago
  You're totally wrong. And I'm not guessing.

Turing_Machine 9y ago

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. How dare you? How dare you? For one, "rich people" don't usually hang out at the library. They can afford to buy books, videos, and their own computers. The people who bear the brunt of an unusable library are middle and lower class people, especially kids. I know, I was one of them. We were quite poor when I was a kid. I'm talking "didn't have electricity or running water" poor, for extended periods of time. Every couple of weeks, we'd go to "town" (population ~1,500, but it had a library). The adults would drop me off there to read and check out books while they did their errands. I really don't know what would have become of me without that -- we sure couldn't afford to buy books. Would they have left me in the library if it had been full of aggressive, stinky, masturbating drunks? No. Nor should they have. No parent would. What you are saying is that the rights of those who use the library as a sleep-off shelter/shooting gallery/public masturbation facility should take precedence over the rights of those who are there to use the library for its intended purpose. Including younger me. Including every child with the urge to learn, but whose family can't afford books. That is an utterly reprehensible position. Once again: how DARE you?