I really suck at knowing when I'm being trolled. I'm not the one in the screenshot but I'm in the thread. This comment was just particularly egregious.
I really suck at knowing when I'm being trolled. I'm not the one in the screenshot but I'm in the thread. This comment was just particularly egregious.
I think it's much more prevalent than people even realize. I was riding in a car with the owner of a restaurant I worked with, the city council had been discussing safe-injection sites and similar issues, my boss casually said "they should just overdose, I don't see why they are arguing about this." He was generally a nice enough guy, kind to people, it was pretty appalling to hear. And then not long after I heard Trump mention 'in China they execute drug dealers, that's why they don't have a drug problem there.' It turns out a lot of conservatives believe in the death penalty for selling drugs.
All of my closest friends—who are in fact the only “close friends” I’ve ever had—use hard drugs, and my de facto best friend started out as my dealer lol. The love of my life, the most deeply beautiful person I’ve ever met, has been on and off homeless and addicted to heroin since they were 18. So hearing shit like that really fucks with me.
Same, so many of my friends have been the exact people that he was talking about. My family was homeless when I was young, not related to drug-use or any sort of crime, and people like him would still want us to be condemned to that life. It motivates me to fight more than most attitudes. This guy was a business owner, not the 1% or anything, but that dehumanization is so prevalent among the wealthy.