The words "homeless" and "encampments" make those places sound nice, but they're not
"The other homeless people are your worst enemy," said Ben. "It's cut throat."
Sometimes literally. Addiction's a brutal life.
"Homeless" is a propaganda word for blinding you to reality
"The other homeless people are your worst enemy," said Ben. "It's cut throat."
Sometimes literally. Addiction's a brutal life.
"Homeless" is a propaganda word for blinding you to reality
https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1490468504356601857
Some people accused me of manipulating the videos I tweeted out yesterday of my interview with Ben, who has been a homeless heroin addict on the streets of San Francisco for 7 years.
My colleague @lwoodhouse has posted unedited videos of Ben saying the same things — and more
My colleague @lwoodhouse has posted unedited videos of Ben saying the same things — and more
"I was an addict way before" moving to SF, says Ben
"Out here, the big problem is these kids 18 or 19 years old who 6 months ago were smoking weed and they smoke fentanyl a couple of times and it's shitty and makes the scene weirder."
"Out here, the big problem is these kids 18 or 19 years old who 6 months ago were smoking weed and they smoke fentanyl a couple of times and it's shitty and makes the scene weirder."
https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1490468082711556098?s=20&t=Qh0mQl3Rd9vDzHnd8GRIZA
"It's a crazy place out here....If you were anywhere else in the country doing what you do here, your ass would be in jail for years and years.
"They have a new center, but a lot of people are out here because they want to be out here, and have quit society, and it wasn't worth it to them... it's the lifestyle of drugs and all of that."
https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse/status/1490466256683634695?s=20&t=i2JaRzN1OtKRaBlGG6QFCg
"Fentanyl doesn't do what I want it to do, but I'm in the minority, and there's people who have stopped selling it."
"People can now smoke 4 - 5 grams in a day. Nonstop. I like the rush of heroin. I like the whole process of doing it and I haven't switched."
"People can now smoke 4 - 5 grams in a day. Nonstop. I like the rush of heroin. I like the whole process of doing it and I haven't switched."
"It was advocates who coined the phrase, ‘homeless,'" says the University of Pennsylvania’s Dennis Culhane. “They’re the ones who thought ‘homeless’ would be a soft, fluffy term for the public to be sympathetic to.”
Here's the history of the propaganda
Here's the history of the propaganda
“The anti-homelessness movement chose the term ‘homelessness,’” wrote a leading San Francisco homeless researcher, “as opposed to ‘transient,’ ‘indigent,’ etc., for its implication that the biggest difference between the homeless and the housed was their lack of shelter.”
In other words, they chose a word that they *knew* was wrong and have always known was wrong
The technical word for this is "lying"
They've lied to the public, policymakers, and journalists about what causes (unsheltered) "homelessness" since the 1980s
The technical word for this is "lying"
They've lied to the public, policymakers, and journalists about what causes (unsheltered) "homelessness" since the 1980s
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