ghosts true encounters with the world beyond

Yes it can be uncomfortable to encounter an unhoused person in distress. A fucking nation of vigilantes with a media and politicians and the cruelest social media agitators constantly telling us that the worst off among us are both violent zombies and subhuman vermin.Īnd it's a Thursday in May and Jordan Neely is dead. We've been talking a lot in here lately about what I consider to be two of the most pressing issues of this dark and darkening period: hair trigger violence among Americans and the constant drumbeat of propaganda against the homeless and here we are today at the perfect intersection of the two. Not just one specific group of normal citizens vs one specific homeless person but all of them vs all of them.Īnd the killer was allowed to walk free. It also shows up in bicyclist vs driver stories and in the common use of 'homeowner' as an honorific in a crime story and most especially in any 'normal citizen' vs homeless person story which is what this was. Media doesn't just apply the exonerative to cops of course. (Reportedly the killer was a marine so basically the same thing as a cop). So you could carry it gently back outside.īy now you've seen the disgusting New York Post story and the passive New York Times tweet in which Neely's killer was provided the exonerative tense cover usually reserved for police when they kill. In fact throwing your jacket on top of it is what you might do to specifically not hurt a small animal that has gotten into your house. You couldn't hurt a person by throwing a jacket. He threw his jacket on the floor they said. I understand the action being described mind you and I understand why they would immediately start printing something like that in the newspapers because I guess in theory it suggests action of some kind that begged for a response. Jordan Neely was agitated on the subway and he threw his jacket. First some thoughts from me on the news from New York City yesterday.

Ghosts true encounters with the world beyond