Intro
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Can you imagine how hard it would be to be on the street and have nothing? Maybe that’s something you’ve actually experienced, but even if it’s not, it’s not hard to imagine how much it would hurt to have people treat you poorly while you have no place to live. Listen to Marni and Kevin talk about how our society tends to add insult to injury when it comes to people who are experiencing homelessness.
Dialog
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Kevin: I was watching 60 Minutes on Sunday, and there was a really disturbing report about these videos called Bum Fights about…
Marni: Bum Fights?
Kevin: ...people who go out and video tape fighting with homeless people.
Marni: Oh my goodness. So they’re, like, instigating fights with homeless people?
Kevin: Yes, and then selling them a la Girls Gone Wild, via the Internet.
Marni: Oh my goodness.
Kevin: It really focused on how homeless people are really the last group of people against whom it’s okay for everybody to discriminate against.
Marni: And I think that’s absolutely awful and wrong to think that it’s okay to discriminate against someone just because you perceive them to be less of an individual.
Kevin: Well, yeah. Because we see homeless people as beggars, unclean, sitting on the street, you know, it’s terrible.
Marni: And there’s so much terminology. I noticed certain people refer to them as “bums” or certain people…I had a friend who worked in a homeless shelter and said that the correct way to refer to them is people experiencing homeless, so it’s not a stigma about who they are but it’s their situation. Yeah, it’s a really interesting…God, that’s a really awful video thing. Disturbing.
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Discussion
Kevin was watching a news program when he learned about a series of videos in which people video tape fights with people who are experiencing homelessness. The videos are sold over the Internet like Girls Gone Wild, a series of videos that gets drunk girls to get naked on camera.
The report Kevin saw focused on how our society seems to think it’s okay to discriminate against people who are experiencing homelessness. Marni says she thinks the videos and mistreatment of these people is terrible. She had a friend who worked in a homeless shelter who taught her about how it’s impolite to use the words “bum” or even “homeless person” because they degrade the person rather than the situation.
Are there people experiencing homelessness in your neighborhood? How are they treated?
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