• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    I see that more and more in the US, people saying things like “what can we do to help them, most homeless people want to live that way” like wtf?

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      6 months ago

      Because of the way media seems to work these days.

      There is no denying that a small percentage of homeless people are too far gone to help and would rather live that way for whatever reason.

      Any person with some critical thought should be able to remove them from the discussion and focus on the vast majority of homeless people that can be helped, where the media will just show this one person and be like see there isn’t any point.

      The same can be seen for peaceful protests. We have 10,000 people protesting peacefully and one lunatic being violent. We all know what the news will show the next day.