I agree it's uniquely tough if you live in New York. The F train is the train I take most often from Brooklyn into Manhattan, Broadway-Lafayette us where I get off to get a walk in on my way to meet people in Wash Sq park or the east village. I've been on the train or platform countless times when someone's freaked out like Neely did. Ideally, you ask the person if they need any help. It they are in fact acting in a very scary way, you avoid eye contact and then change train cars.
Ah yes, another biased piece that insinuates that Daniel Penny thought he had the right to kill Neely, or that he subdued him (with the help of two black men, no mention of THAT either) for any other reason than the fact that he was being threatening to his fellow passengers.
Also, glaringly absent is the mention of Neely's 30+ arrests for similar behavior including the arrest just weeks earlier for punching an elderly woman. A punch that was severe enough to break the bones in her face- but she is Jewish and therefore "white" so apparently her safety isn't important, or at least that's the message I'm getting from the tidal wave of think pieces just like this one that treat Neely with velvetly kid gloves.
Yes, our society is unhinged. Yes, our individualistic, cut-throat capitalism, our sickeningly low taxes on the wealthy which has ushered in our similarly sickeningly pathetically small social safety net spending converged to create this hellscape we are find ourselves in. However, the deceit via ommision coming from progressives, the steady drum of divisive race bating - much of it coming from so-called "good yt's™️" is just contributing to the pendulum swinging even FURTHER to the to right when the ONLY thing that can save our fucked up country is left wing populism- but I fear thanks to gaslighting articles like this one, we won't get there soon enough for it to matter.
JFC HOW do you people not SEE what you're doing???
Such an on point piece. I work with marginalized folks in assisted living and so many of them were unhoused and we are one of the few facilities here in the desert that does whatever we can to keep them placed, regardless of DX or $$$. It’s hard and it’s exhausting. So many don’t care or get it. It’s such an individualistic framed society at times and like you said we need to keep working towards reframing that narrative. Thank you as always.
I cant even put into words how powerful this is.
I agree it's uniquely tough if you live in New York. The F train is the train I take most often from Brooklyn into Manhattan, Broadway-Lafayette us where I get off to get a walk in on my way to meet people in Wash Sq park or the east village. I've been on the train or platform countless times when someone's freaked out like Neely did. Ideally, you ask the person if they need any help. It they are in fact acting in a very scary way, you avoid eye contact and then change train cars.
Thank you for this. You’ve put to words what so many of us have been thinking and feeling following this horrific news.
Delusional from start to finish.
Ah yes, another biased piece that insinuates that Daniel Penny thought he had the right to kill Neely, or that he subdued him (with the help of two black men, no mention of THAT either) for any other reason than the fact that he was being threatening to his fellow passengers.
Also, glaringly absent is the mention of Neely's 30+ arrests for similar behavior including the arrest just weeks earlier for punching an elderly woman. A punch that was severe enough to break the bones in her face- but she is Jewish and therefore "white" so apparently her safety isn't important, or at least that's the message I'm getting from the tidal wave of think pieces just like this one that treat Neely with velvetly kid gloves.
Yes, our society is unhinged. Yes, our individualistic, cut-throat capitalism, our sickeningly low taxes on the wealthy which has ushered in our similarly sickeningly pathetically small social safety net spending converged to create this hellscape we are find ourselves in. However, the deceit via ommision coming from progressives, the steady drum of divisive race bating - much of it coming from so-called "good yt's™️" is just contributing to the pendulum swinging even FURTHER to the to right when the ONLY thing that can save our fucked up country is left wing populism- but I fear thanks to gaslighting articles like this one, we won't get there soon enough for it to matter.
JFC HOW do you people not SEE what you're doing???
This shit gay af
Beautifully written about the very ugly and sad situation that exists in this country.
Such an on point piece. I work with marginalized folks in assisted living and so many of them were unhoused and we are one of the few facilities here in the desert that does whatever we can to keep them placed, regardless of DX or $$$. It’s hard and it’s exhausting. So many don’t care or get it. It’s such an individualistic framed society at times and like you said we need to keep working towards reframing that narrative. Thank you as always.