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I like to say that yesterday, I woke up and chose violence but in the manner of rhetoric. I was annoyed because of some personal matters but then I became annoyed at the flatulating progressives who are using this viral moment to get attention and the overly simplistic conservatives who think locking up everyone is the solution to everything.
In the end, I felt like no one really cares about this guy. He’s just the thing to talk about right now and will be forgotten next week.
I mean, humans only have so much capacity to care deeply about someone, especially strangers but what I can’t stand are the people who act high and mighty as if they’re saviors of the underclass and behave like hippie homeless whisperers when I know these people would easily walk over them to make their next train.
I live in New Jersey but I’ve been to NYC plenty of times and rode the subway. When I hear someone screaming from a distance, I look but New Yorkers don’t. They don’t care. They’ve been trained to think this shit is normal. Even worse, they shame you when you point out how this is inhuman and maybe we should see these people.
Nope. Just walk keep walking, don’t make eye contact, and stay away from them.
When one of them has a mental break and starts screaming in a fast-moving tube underneath the city, you’re not supposed to complain. “This is city life,” they’ll tell you. Just deal with it.
So thankfully, Newsweek gave me the opportunity to tell as many people as possible how I really feel.
They don’t actually care about this guy. It’s just for attention and donor money for politicians. They don’t even really care about the homeless in general because caring wouldn’t allow them to roam in squalor or give the thumbs up for them to drug themselves in public as supposed “progress”.
Anyways…here is my article. I hope you enjoy it.
Newsweek: No One Cared About Jordan Neely's Life. They Just Want to Use His Death | Opinion
My Latest Newsweek Article - Homelessness & the Death of Jordan Neely
I thought you did a great job of humanizing Mr. Neely without turning him into a Christ figure. I found myself able to empathize with the tragic situation and not drawn, one way or the other, to partisan battle lines. And I think he was failed, although not by any single group of the same political stripe, but rather by his fellow humans.
Thanks for writing what you write.
Great article. And I have to agree with you. If NY’ers don’t care why should someone like me that lives over 1000 miles away care?