Comments by "Sean" (@sean2015) on "News 5 Cleveland"
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@quixoticdragon2357 well first of all, yes there ARE different types of homeless, I am WELL AWARE of that and in fact I have addressed this very issue in some of my previous posts.
For example, there are many people who can (technically speaking) be considered “homeless” insofar as they couch surf, live in cars, vans, etc., but are otherwise clean and sober, law-abiding people and often hold down full-time jobs. I am not referring to people in that category.
The people who I AM referring to are also (or at least USED to be) known as “street people”, “hobos”, “tramps” or “bums”. But because of political correctness and wokeness, Leftists have more or less banned the use of those terms in everyday speech and now they are simply referred to as “homeless” (in fact, San Francisco has now gone a step further and banned the word “homeless” in favor of a new Leftist euphemism called “domicile-challenged individuals”). This has the effect of lumping them into the same category as the people in my previous paragraph, which is unfair to the people in my previous paragraph.
So yes, it’s important that we distinguish between people who are “homeless” because of financial circumstances versus street bums who are homeless because of substance abuse issues and who CHOOSE to live on the streets because they are unable much less unwilling to abide by the rules of a shelter.
You don’t have to lecture me, I live in Chicago (a city run entirely by DEMOCRATS by the way, which has BEEN run by Democrats for the past 100 years, and hasn’t had a Republican mayor since before the Great Depression) has one of the largest numbers of street people (and yes, I am going to refer to them as “street people” no matter how much that me offend your delicate Leftist sensibilities) of any other city so I see these types of people on a regular basis, and believe me when I tell you that there are PLENTY of resources and help available to these individuals but they are only interested in begging for cash to buy booze or drugs. Being homeless is definitely not an ideal situation, but if you’re going to be homeless, the US is one of the better countries to do it.
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@quixoticdragon2357 I say that because it looks like you had previously responded to me, but I can’t see your responses anymore on this page.
The problem is that the word “homeless” has become too broadly defined as a result of political correctness and wokeness. There are many people who fit the technical definition of “homeless” insofar as they live in cars, vans, trailers, etc., but who have full-time jobs, and are clean and sober and law-abiding citizens. We have to differentiate those people from “street people” and “bums” who choose to live on the street because they have a substance addiction problem and are unwilling to abide by the rules of a shelter (for example no smoking, no drinking, no drugs etc.,)
The people in the former category I have some sympathy for, the people in the latter category I have zero sympathy for.
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