[Noisebridge-discuss] Homeless in NB

[Eric W. Rasmussen]

Maybe you were asked to leave because you said something offensive.

Have you ever considered living at NB? I hear they have beds now.


On 07/06/2013 09:57 AM, Danny Dismal wrote:
> Umm they can see out the window at our bikes and gear which is a 
> little more than your average bike tourist. It wasn't even in the 
> coffee shop. All we had was our laptops and the coffee we ordered no 
> more or less than most of the other customers. And where do you get 
> off saying we choose to live this way. You think it's okay to spit on 
> and look down at a class of people by justifying why they are there as 
> if you knew. Just like the racist know that all those black men are 
> bad right?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Jake <jake at spaz.org 
> <mailto:jake at spaz.org>> wrote:
>
>     Really?  thrown out of a coffee shop just because you're homeless?
>
>     HOW DID THEY KNOW?  they must have read your mind.
>
>     If they could tell you're homeless maybe it's because something
>     about you was disrupting the place from doing what it was meant to
>     do.  For example, if people are in a place to enjoy food and
>     coffee and someone smells really bad, that person might be asked
>     to leave rather than everyone else stop enjoying their meals and
>     being disgusted.
>
>     If a cafe was trying to provide space for people to socialize and
>     work on their laptops or whatever, and someone has all their
>     property spread out all around them and is taking up too much
>     space, they might be asked to leave.  Especially if they're not
>     participating in buying anything (which is how they pay the rent
>     on the place).
>
>     For you to compare your "suffering" to that of african americans
>     of the 19th century is obscene.  You need to quit whining and get
>     some perspective.  I am assuming you are a healthy young person
>     who could easily get a job and afford an apartment.  You could
>     also find a home by squatting, which takes a bit of WORK if you
>     want it to last a while.
>
>     If you choose (and it is a choice) not to do these things, own up
>     to the consequences and accept that other people the right to not
>     support you if they don't want to.
>
>     And if you want to use the N-word that way you can get the FUCK
>     off our mailing list and go do it somewhere else.
>
>     -jake
>
>
>     Danny Dismal wrote:
>
>     I was just thinking to myself after getting thrown out of a coffee
>     shop for no other reason than I'm homeless...
>     I thought just what that meant and how it reflected on our history
>     in this
>     nation and realized one thing and I do mean it is really happening.
>     The homeless are the new Niggers of the 21st Century. We are
>     scorned and
>     pushed out. People walk across the street to avoid us and we are
>     constantly
>     being asked to move, wake up and getting robbed, beaten and in
>     some cases
>     killed where no one bothers to find out why.
>     Now's the time to look at your feelings on this and ask yourself
>     "how do
>     the homeless make you feel"?
>
>
>
>
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