Obligatory link to today's Covid/Corona thread

TL;DR: See title.

WARNING: Some offensive words are used below.

Many people in this sub are quick to share their less than compassionate attitude towards those less fortunate than them.

This makes me very sad, because it feels like, out of fear, discomfort, ignorance, many of you have reduced, in your mind, a whole bunch of human beings to sub-human. You don't want to see them, you don't want to share space with them, you don't care how they live or die.

Stop kidding yourselves, these people are no worse or better than you or me, and you could easily end up in their place.

They live one day to the next just trying to survive, living through literal torture.

Sleep deprivation, lack of adequate food and shelter, lack of quiet...

These are the same conditions, when thrust upon someone at a place like Gitmo, probably incite angry disapproval in you, don't they?

Have you ever been not able to sleep in peace for days, weeks, months, years, decades at a time?

Have you ever tried to put your life back together when all your fucking identification has been stolen and you don't have any friends or family?

And y'all are cheering for more strigent policies at the MTA, about banning shopping carts, which often contained my only important fucking belongings while I traveled from one home to another? A shopping cart which is no bigger than a fucking wheelchair, which y'all seem to respect. Well, guess what, I am fucking handicapped too, I don't have a building to my name, and I'm just trying to get from point A to point B, carefully, considerately, not bothering anyone, wearing a fucking face covering. Just minding my own fucking business, going through the few fucking elevators that there are. I have a fucking back injury, 200 pounds of laptops, and you want me to carry all this shit on my back? Shame on you!

I was going to write a long-ass essay here, there's a lot more which can be said, but it's been said by many others, just go do some searches.

Here is the gist of it:

The word "homeless" is now on the same list as "Karen", "nigger", "retard", "kike", "faggot", "dyke". It is not banned, but use it at your peril.

Try something else, for example:

• outdoors dweller
• outdoors
• living on the street
• neighbor
• citizen
• resident
• human
• housing-handicapped
• undomiciled, the official term at the HRA
• unhoused
• indigeous
• destitute
• unestablished
• unplaced
• forsaken
• or come up with your own kind, compassionate, maybe humorous term

Anti-outdoors posts and comments will officially become bannable offense in this sub.

Now, it's getting colder, so get your old fucking blankets ready, there will be a blanket drive.