100% agree.

This is rad!

It's because the American public have become the new "Associated Press".

If only this were a matter of semantics. If/when you enter homelessness you're going to discover that word usage can be far more traumatizing than you ever imagined.

I did watch the video. I'm a big fan of Carlin (and also of Bill Hicks). For the term "unhoused" you are simply wrong. I have been working with people experiencing chronic homelessness for over a decade, and it is imperative to reduce their trauma and give them hope wherever and whenever possible.

Not everyone gives up. This is why it is still effective to give hope to traumatized people. Trauma may not be erasable, but neither is our ability to heal.

What you and George Carlin aren't getting is that some of the terminology changes are not for the purpose of making things "sound classy". Post-traumatic stress disorder, for instance, is a diagnosable condition that insurance will pay for. "Shell shock" is not.

Punishment for being impoverished.

It's part of the country wide effort (by some) to justify the dehumanization, over-policing, and prosecution of people experiencing homelessness that is unfolding in every major city.

Addicted housewives simply throw their needles into their dumpsters, and wear makeup. Everyone is fine with those kind of druggies. What is this tell us? That the real problem is our lack of affordable housing.

If the opioid crisis in the suburbs showed us anything of value, it's that it's perfectly fine to be a drug addict as long as you can take a shower and have an extensive wardrobe.

Yep, deck chairs of blame.

There isn't a FD (or budget) on this planet that could have done any better against the circumstances of this fire.

So, while I think your article is excellent, I think explaining authentic cultures to abstract ones can also be a Sisyphean trap.

The bigger problem is the "white" construct. Until they lay hold on who _they_ are, understanding a world without masks will lay well beyond their grasp.

When your identity is a gigantic postmodern abstraction that switched out culture for power before you were born, you are handed that mask at birth. And after learning to wear it your whole life, the only identities that you can fathom for others are, likewise, dehumanizing.

You also have to consider that more adults in the US know GOT history better than they know American vaccine history. After FDR was paralyzed in 1921, it still took 34 years and half a billion $ to approve the vaccine, which means that the populace lived in abject terror of polio until 1955.

Dude was an electrifying performer. I was almost apprehensive to see them play live bc I didn't want to be disappointed. But he was simultaneously the most ferocious and most vulnerable singer I have ever witnessed in person.

...so you kinda understand a percentage of people addicted to meth.

Not surprised to learn that Nixon was involved in sabotaging public housing.

I'm writing a book about them, if she's into history and Dune have her check it out.