Imagine if you will a big and large dog. Your not making it big enough in your mind. Okay now it’s good. Picture its favorite food is berries and salmon. You want to pet it, don’t you? Well don’t. What you’ve just invented is a bear. And you’re under arrest for inventing the bear.
people on the internet: you shouldn’t hate people for the kind of media they enjoy! stand up comedians should be able to make jokes about whatever they want and it’s not okay to wish harm on them for it!
new who peaked when it had christopher eccleston look the last living dalek dead in the eyestalk & tell it to kill itself, only for the response to be “you would make a good dalek” there is absolutely no topping that.
You don’t have to like weed but I find people who are vehemently anti-weed but claim to be left leaning infuriating. If you go into a rage because you smelled someone smoking pot, how the fuck do you expect to form community with people addicted to meth? It’s easier to say you hate smokers than to say you hate all drug users in leftist spaces because one makes you sound a bit like a square while the other is the writing on the wall. You aren’t anti-weed, you’re anti-drug user and anyone who uses substances is not safe around you.
ALT
I know dozens of people who use meth, coke, and fentanyl. While heroin is harder to get I do know some folks who use it when they can. Some of these drug users are my neighbors, some are my clients, and some are my friends & family. One does not cease to be human just because they use a substance you find scary.
Community doesn’t mean you need to invite them to your home and look away if they smoke there. It means you don’t call your property manager because you suspect your neighbor uses. It means you don’t require drug tests for homeless shelters and housing services. It means the very idea of someone who smokes meth in your community doesn’t make you go, “what the hell.”
Genuinely kind of a wild thing to see in the replies as someone who has been professionally practicing harm reduction for years.
Considering recent events over here in the States, this seemed like a good time to bring this back. Over the next four years, expect an increase in discourse around “undesirables.” This will include but not be limited to drug addicts.
Also, from someone who works at a smoke/head shop: WAY MORE PEOPLE ARE DRUG USERS THAN YOU THINK. Way more people are addicted to opiates, meth, whippets, cocaine, you name it, than you have been lead to believe, and on top of that, they are often the “normal” or “functional” people you see every day, not just the person tweaking out at the gas stations. Judges, bank tellers, grandmas, teachers, the nice lady who runs your bakery— all of them. You are ALREADY IN COMMUNITY WITH THESE PEOPLE. Start fucking acting like it.
ALT
