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If someone is hanging a noose that's an objectively racist act and the fact that the victim happens to be homeless is probably not the biggest thing the person
by pc86 6y ago
If someone is hanging a noose that's an objectively racist act and the fact that the victim happens to be homeless is probably not the biggest thing the person has a problem with.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoSure, but I think you have to look at it intersectionally. The fact that they called them "thugs" and used a noose doesn't mean that they're only motivated by racism. Their hostility might manifest differently if the homeless people were mostly white, but it wouldn't go away.
- bradlys 6y agoWeird. Never really heard of anyone calling homeless people thugs. I don't even associate homelessness with black. I associate it with crazy white dudes shitting everywhere - but maybe that's because I'm on the west coast where it seems the majority of homeless guys getting attention are white. I guess there's also the fact that if you were black, homeless, and crazy - you'd have been killed by the police already. Black and homeless - probably keeping lower profile as to avoid police killing you.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoDemographics will be different in different areas. In NYC, over half of homeless shelter residents are Black, and an additional third are Latinx. https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/NYCHomelessnessFactSheet_7-2017_citations.pdf https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2...