‘Frisco has had enough of the homeless?
Posted October 10th, 2007 at 11:19 AM by Jon HamIt would seem so.
Meanwhile, Durham’s leaders fiddle faddle around in abject terror of making a politically incorrect move regarding bums and panhandlers. Oh, excuse me. Frequent Right Angles commenter “Rose Maxway” would probably want me to term them “unfortunate wonderful people currently oppressed by the capitalist system and reviled by angry conservatives who take joy in their misfortune.”
But in San Francisco, bastion of lefty liberalism taken to extremes, the population is tired of homeless people throwing up and defecating on their doorsteps. One resident interviewed by the Chronicle said, “I don’t think this is a conservative or liberal thing. This is quality of life for everyone.”
While it shouldn’t be a conservative-liberal issue, it is. Lefty liberals can’t make tough decisions without getting all weepy, a la the aforementioned Rose. In San Francisco they can’t even bring themselves to stop public sex at street fairs for fear of offending someone. So, good luck, San Franciscans, in getting any action on the homeless issue.
Meanwhile, in Durham our county commissioners and city council members twiddle their thumbs and wait for all the incumbents to get re-elected. Just like in San Francisco.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Liberal outrage about the homeless problem in San Francisco can be summed up in five simple letters:
NIMBY.
Trust me on this. They’ll still pin the blame for the fact that anyone is homeless on nasty ol’ conservatives and other alleged haters of the poor. And they’ll demand that we spend all kinds of tax dollars trying to remedy the problem. And they’ll ESPECIALLY demand that all of the rest of us allow homeless people to behave however they like in OUR neighborhoods. But if THEIR lives come to be inconvenienced, then suddenly they’ll take a real interest in the situation.
The conundrum this creates (not to mention the massive hypocrisy) is one reason why many liberals are so messed up: They have a hard time reconciling what they say with what they really want. This results in expressions of outrage in which they blame everyone else for their problems.