Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
Homeless Population Not Monolithic
RECEIVED Sat., Oct. 20, 2007
Dear Editor,
Re: Lee Aycock's letter to the editor ["Postmarks," Oct. 19]: Not to be too on-point about it or anything, but you do realize that the homeless population is not monolithic, yes? It comprises different people with varied stories, pathos, pathologies, and needs. Just because you once witnessed something shifty going down with homeless people does not indict them all. Kindly remove your ability to comprehend gradations and complexities out of your ass. I've seen plenty of complicity amongst those with homes (and lots of crap with which to fill them!), engaging in far sketchier and further-reaching macro-level BS. Some homeless people are clinically impaired or psychologically unstable, and when you tell those people they have no right to request cash (I'm not homeless, but I have asked a fellow motorist for a quarter so the parking fräuleins wouldn't tow my ass), then you're essentially recommending that they allow themselves to die. Somehow, encouraging suicide amongst the disenfranchised members of the world doesn't seem terribly helpful. Look, you're either a humanist or you're not. I realize this is a profoundly frustrating reality for you bourgeois Stepford humanoids, being forced to confront the marginal people with whom you share a city, but I must say …
Your tears taste like candy to me.
Grow a thicker skin, you weenie; it's a wacky world. That you look around and see this issue as the most whine-worthy of criminal activities reaches Britney Spearsian heights of foolishness.
Re: Lee Aycock's letter to the editor ["Postmarks," Oct. 19]: Not to be too on-point about it or anything, but you do realize that the homeless population is not monolithic, yes? It comprises different people with varied stories, pathos, pathologies, and needs. Just because you once witnessed something shifty going down with homeless people does not indict them all. Kindly remove your ability to comprehend gradations and complexities out of your ass. I've seen plenty of complicity amongst those with homes (and lots of crap with which to fill them!), engaging in far sketchier and further-reaching macro-level BS. Some homeless people are clinically impaired or psychologically unstable, and when you tell those people they have no right to request cash (I'm not homeless, but I have asked a fellow motorist for a quarter so the parking fräuleins wouldn't tow my ass), then you're essentially recommending that they allow themselves to die. Somehow, encouraging suicide amongst the disenfranchised members of the world doesn't seem terribly helpful. Look, you're either a humanist or you're not. I realize this is a profoundly frustrating reality for you bourgeois Stepford humanoids, being forced to confront the marginal people with whom you share a city, but I must say …
Your tears taste like candy to me.
Grow a thicker skin, you weenie; it's a wacky world. That you look around and see this issue as the most whine-worthy of criminal activities reaches Britney Spearsian heights of foolishness.
Eye-rollingly,
Teighlor Darr
Teighlor Darr
p.s. Got any spare change?
