This is actually a really common set of brainworms in the Deaf community. To start, there's resentment of "peddlers", which are Deaf people who "play up" their deafness while panhandling to evoke sympathy and make more money, often by handing out cards with the manual alphabet on them. So far, you can sort of see where that resentment might come from, in that the Deaf community is really big on Deafhood being a positive thing and that plays off deafness being a negative thing to get sympathy and money.
But then, as part of that resentment, people are convinced that these peddlers are all super rich, which is also meant to make the non-peddler Deaf people martyrs- "I could be rich too if I was willing to shuck and jive, but I have too much dignity for that" basically
that doesn't sound like much of a "community" to me. like, it's a disability. if someone doesn't have the social bonds and material necessities that deaf and hearing people rely on, suddenly it becomes a lot more disabling.
Yes but deaf people have their own language group and culture that that entails. You get some really interesting inter community fights about it, especially surrounding things like coclear implants. Like I can see both sides of the argument, it's a quite interesting conundrum.
I remember some "investigative reporting" back in the 00s or 90s or something that pushed the idea that panhandlers were all making 5-6 figures and living in nice houses and shit. And people, being gullible, bought in to this shit. Point is, it's not something people came up with themselves, the idea was actually promulgated by the media at various points.
It's John Stossel . He did the whole "homeless people getting into BMWs" thing ( never mind that old luxury cars can be cheap, because they can break if you look at them funny)
I got that bullshit personally when I used to help out with some toys for tots programs. "Look at these shameful homeless people with their new cars" like a car isn't a requirement to work. And at the time car payments were probably a couple of hundred dollars a month. But no clearly bc they were driving a car that was only a few years old they had stacks of hidden wealth that they were lying about so they could get a barbie and a football for their kids.
I really enjoy king of the hill, but my god, some of the episodes are just so, so bad. Like, the powderpuff football game, which was basically "misogyny: the episode". Or that time Peggy is singlehandedly responsible for gentrifying a neighborhood because she sold some houses to hipsters. Or that time Hank starts working at that food co-op, where apparently no one had ever figured out how to rotate stock before Hank showed them how. Or that time Peggy makes friends with a trans woman? Drag queen? The show is very unclear and much of the conflict of the episode centers around the issue that Peggy is feeling confident and feminine about her feet for the first time, but she's hanging out with "men", so is she really finding femininity?
So yeah, amusing show with some stand out bits, but so much of it is so, so bad. And I really wish Hank (and Peggy) would realize they're being asses before the last minute or so of the episode. They never learn, they just do the same assholeish behavior every episode and then at the end they're always like, oh wait, I'm an ass. And after like 2 seasons of that I was already over it.
I know multiple people who fully buy into the idea that homeless people have the easiest lives and all make 6 figures anually from panhandling
This is actually a really common set of brainworms in the Deaf community. To start, there's resentment of "peddlers", which are Deaf people who "play up" their deafness while panhandling to evoke sympathy and make more money, often by handing out cards with the manual alphabet on them. So far, you can sort of see where that resentment might come from, in that the Deaf community is really big on Deafhood being a positive thing and that plays off deafness being a negative thing to get sympathy and money.
But then, as part of that resentment, people are convinced that these peddlers are all super rich, which is also meant to make the non-peddler Deaf people martyrs- "I could be rich too if I was willing to shuck and jive, but I have too much dignity for that" basically
that doesn't sound like much of a "community" to me. like, it's a disability. if someone doesn't have the social bonds and material necessities that deaf and hearing people rely on, suddenly it becomes a lot more disabling.
Yes but deaf people have their own language group and culture that that entails. You get some really interesting inter community fights about it, especially surrounding things like coclear implants. Like I can see both sides of the argument, it's a quite interesting conundrum.
I remember some "investigative reporting" back in the 00s or 90s or something that pushed the idea that panhandlers were all making 5-6 figures and living in nice houses and shit. And people, being gullible, bought in to this shit. Point is, it's not something people came up with themselves, the idea was actually promulgated by the media at various points.
It's John Stossel . He did the whole "homeless people getting into BMWs" thing ( never mind that old luxury cars can be cheap, because they can break if you look at them funny)
I got that bullshit personally when I used to help out with some toys for tots programs. "Look at these shameful homeless people with their new cars" like a car isn't a requirement to work. And at the time car payments were probably a couple of hundred dollars a month. But no clearly bc they were driving a car that was only a few years old they had stacks of hidden wealth that they were lying about so they could get a barbie and a football for their kids.
fucking king of the hill has an episode about this
I really enjoy king of the hill, but my god, some of the episodes are just so, so bad. Like, the powderpuff football game, which was basically "misogyny: the episode". Or that time Peggy is singlehandedly responsible for gentrifying a neighborhood because she sold some houses to hipsters. Or that time Hank starts working at that food co-op, where apparently no one had ever figured out how to rotate stock before Hank showed them how. Or that time Peggy makes friends with a trans woman? Drag queen? The show is very unclear and much of the conflict of the episode centers around the issue that Peggy is feeling confident and feminine about her feet for the first time, but she's hanging out with "men", so is she really finding femininity?
So yeah, amusing show with some stand out bits, but so much of it is so, so bad. And I really wish Hank (and Peggy) would realize they're being asses before the last minute or so of the episode. They never learn, they just do the same assholeish behavior every episode and then at the end they're always like, oh wait, I'm an ass. And after like 2 seasons of that I was already over it.
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