Do you understand why I'm angry? Probably not, so, explanation time:
I walk about 7 blocks from where I park near the convention, in the residential area which does not have parking meters, to get to Comic Con, every day, every year, and the number of homeless and hopeless people living on the sidewalks, grows every year. It's frankly as close to humans in a zoo evvironment as animals are, with no running water, no shade, no public sanitary toilets/portapotties, etc and just like a poor run down zoo with no cleaning crew to keep the cages cleaned out, the muck and stink are pretty bad, the homeless are mentally and physically destroyed, and it's filthy.
A few years ago it was actually declared a county local health emergency on September 1, 2017. This ended in January 23, 2018
The CDC was called in. The 2017 hepatitis A outbreak resulted in 592 cases and 20 deaths. San Diego County officials were able to trace cases back to November 2016.
this year, it's coming to that AGAIN.
Instead of Boxlunch and Entertainment weekly looking away from the convention, and donating meals to the homeless directly, or having an active role in helping the homeless in eyesight distance from this food truck passing out ice cream treats on J street.... it looked toward the convention goers, and asked for social media traffic fucking liberal virtue signaling.
but on a 2nd look, they might not be hypocrites, maybe I read them wrong, they clearly claim to be on site only to get fans, and give fans free treats. Nothing on the van says they'll give the homeless free treats. After all, the homeless aren't trading an email for a free treat, and aren't helping promotions trend on twitter. That seems to be the minimum required. "stop by to get your summer snack and surprise gift when you sign up for #BoxLunch emails on-site! #BoxLunchxEW pic.twitter.com/SubUwcPUjO"
If this is "helping feed others" or "feeding America" it would be facing the other direction OR a block farther away from the convention, and handing out food to the homeless.
Other end of country and different problems here, and chances are that there are a few things we disagree on, and not in the mood for a political thread, but I just wanted to say that on this one you are hitting the nail on the head. Well said.
ReplyDeleteof course we probably disagree on some things. I have a point of view on things and so do you, and it's unlikely they match up on every thing. It's nice to know that they match up on this one.
DeleteA "feel good" stuff, put a hashtag on social media and be proud of yourself that you "help". It's the same as "thoughts and prayers". Is that hypocrisy as you said... it is, high as fuck. If they would like to actual do stuff that would be visible, they would do what you said, give food to the homeless directly. Trucks at convention, trucks further giving FREE meal to those people that life kick in to street. Maybe they do support that action, maybe they send a lot of food in to food banks or free kitchens, maybe... but we don't see that.
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