Ken White
A mentally ill homeless guy walked onto a high school campus in my suburb, wearing all black, carrying a big duffel bag. Now, it’s reasonable to be concerned about that and want to identify who it is, assure he’s not carrying weapons onto the campus, and so forth.
But the community (as, perhaps, poorly represented on Facebook) is coming completely unhinged.
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Ken White
/10 I am informed my attitude reflects male privilege.
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
@Popehat I'm still sorry that with the passing of Rik, there's no longer such a thing as Mayall privilege.
Ken White
/8 People have an absolute right to have fears, and voice them, even if the fears are irrational in nature or proposed remedy. But some people seem to thing that fears, particularly about children, should be above dissent or critique, which is weird.
Ken White
/9 I give them this: they’re up front about it.
Ken White
/5 It is … not going well.
Ken White
/6 when people unclear on the concept try to insult me
Ken White
/7 Still not going well. However, I have worked very hard to be polite. I just had a donut, which I awarded myself for refraining from the phrase “mob of crazed torch-waving Karens”
Ken White
/3 They’ve found his Twitter and Facebook accounts and are printing out the stuff there - kind of crazy, not notably crazy on Twitter — taking it to the police demanding he be arrested. They’re keeping meticulous logs of his activities.
I am considerably more afraid of my neighbors than I am of this mentally ill homeless guy.
Ken White
/4 The real question is .. will I keep my mouth shut and stay out of the neighborhood group where people are wigging out? Or will I comment?
Ken White
/2 The cops found him at a local Starbucks, identified him, determined he had no weapons, and gave him a trespassing ticket. The community is OUTRAGED. They’re stalking him around the community and taking pictures of him at Starbucks and McDonald’s and demanding that he be kicked out. They want him jailed or institutionalized.
Ken White
/14 My dissent is a threat to community security.
Gojira1000
@Popehat You can't slip a piece of paper in the gap between a MAGAt and a liberal who sees a homeless guy in their neighborhood.
Ken White
/12 Toying with idea of starting to post slightly paraphrased things the Bible says about prisoners.
Ken White
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Ken White
/11 Some people were claiming that he threatened a car repair place with a bomb threat. I looked at the tweet. It’s an image of an antimatter torpedo.
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