Outrage of the day
Sep. 9th, 2005 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomikritzerVisitor to evacuee housing in Oklahoma is told that evacuees won't be allowed to leave -- not even to go to church. Also, there are kitchens at the site, but the evacuees won't be allowed to use them -- they'll be fed MREs twice a day. Can the church that donated the site send volunteers in to cook for people? Nope.
Can we all agree -- liberal and conservative alike -- that it is not okay to treat poor evacuees like criminals? We are Americans. It is not okay to herd people into actual ghettos where they will be kept prisoner, where help is being prevented from reaching them, where they are fed an inadequate diet, where there is nothing around but trees and hills so they are prevented from starting a new life. Etc., etc., etc.
I'm not going to use a Nazi comparison because first of all, I wouldn't want to invoke Godwin's Law but also because there are some important differences; we will be feeding them, at least. But I will say that this is all the dystopian YA novels of my childhood springing to life, right here.
Also, apparently Michael Brown described himself as an "assistant city manager" when actually he was sort of an intern with no oversight of anything.
Can we all agree -- liberal and conservative alike -- that it is not okay to treat poor evacuees like criminals? We are Americans. It is not okay to herd people into actual ghettos where they will be kept prisoner, where help is being prevented from reaching them, where they are fed an inadequate diet, where there is nothing around but trees and hills so they are prevented from starting a new life. Etc., etc., etc.
I'm not going to use a Nazi comparison because first of all, I wouldn't want to invoke Godwin's Law but also because there are some important differences; we will be feeding them, at least. But I will say that this is all the dystopian YA novels of my childhood springing to life, right here.
Also, apparently Michael Brown described himself as an "assistant city manager" when actually he was sort of an intern with no oversight of anything.
