Dehumanizing the homeless dehumanizes all of us: Seeing Sue
What is Dehumanization and How Does it Create Homelessness?
Why We Keep Walking: Dehumanization and “Feeling Good About Feeling Bad”
We Assume the Actions Define the Being, so Inhumane Actions Mean Not Human
After all, they do stuff we would not even consider doing, so why would we stop to help them, let them start the process on their own, we’ll help the pups and kittens, the feel good for helping ain’t what they think
Let’s look at His word as we start today
Matthew 7: 12
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law of the Prophets
Colossians 3: 1
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience
Isaiah 54: 10
Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken, nor My covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord who has compassion on you
What say you…
Litter, trash, rubbish, all over the sidewalks, and then oh, yes the bigger, more wiggly bumps, I think the humans make those bumps when they fall down drunk, right…..
Dogs and cats, now they cannot fix anything on their own, but these darn humans, enough already, they made their bed, let them sleep in their own bed, oops, no beds
Introduction
So, if one is to allow another human to become dehumanized, less than a human being, then it is hard a far step for the next phase. If dehumanized, then marginalized. Tossed away like today’s garbage.
Finally dehumanized, marginalized, and subsidized. Thus, the birth of the modern Industrial Complex surrounding homelessness. This happens every day, and we keep walking away, why?
Define Dehumanization
To dehumanize another is to deny another of all humanity, along with it’s cruelty and suffering that accompanies it.
Denial of human qualities and attributes and special qualities such as independent thinking, and feelings for other people.
The psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of human treatment. This can lead to increased violence toward the homeless.
Do you hear the strong words in these definitions, they are happening all around us to fellow humans, and we are ignorant but not innocent. We have allowed the system to set them up to be seen as enemies, and as less than human and we must end this wicked cycle. A homeless person is not divested of their humanity simply because they end up homeless.
Are the Homeless Actually Humans
In the articles looked at and read before writing this blog they address the purposeful social engineering of the thinking toward the homeless. Homelessness has to exist in America was their conclusion, we are short 7 million housing units, and we have been set up to think about the homeless as any but human. Associated with violence, crime, mental illness, but nothing positive.
The way dehumanization is presented is as if they take off their humanity the moment they land on the streets and thus are free game for tormenting and suffering. When you mix that with the news and the government’s interpretation of how the homeless are ‘causing’ all kinds of problems, you can understand the slide into dehumanization. But why have we silently accepted this wickedness? Is it because we are just glad it is not us out there dying?
When words such as criminal, druggie, alcoholic, derelict, deadbeat, lazy, mentally ill and crazed, dangerous, and freeloader, are heard instead of the truth, you have made the human person begin to disappear. These are words we have been socially trained to use and accept when thinking about, seeing, or speaking about homeless people, no compassion, no empathy, thus no intervention is needed, successful dehumanization.
Is there a Hidden Plot at Hand
America has been on the wrong trajectory for several decades, 180 degrees different from the dream of the founding fathers and we need to acknowledge that and demand a return to the right course. Homelessness is part of that wrong course; it is a tool of the destabilization of the nation from within. We have leaders and movers and shakers who want a different course for this natin and they first must ‘prove’ the constitution does not work anymore and we are in the first stages of that plot.
If you have housing, both rental and mortgage, that is consistently unattainable, how do you care for the workforce nationwide? If you are allowing the printing of money to drive inflation up and with the cost of living, how do people care for their families? Medical care is out of control thanks to the failed Obama Care and is only getting worse. And we have kicked God out of the majority of this nation. So is there is a plot loose, yes, and the homeless is a large part of the plot.
I know I sound as if I have drank a little too much coffee, but why do we keep walking, fear, that could be us, why do we keep walking, we have no answers, and we know it is a wicked plot at work. This nation is in trouble and no one in power is being held accountable for their wrong decisions, and the homeless are being used to experiencing the greater destabilization that is coming. Look at the rapid increase of numbers since the pandemic!
This Breeds Violence/Death
To dehumanize opens the door for us to be dehumanized, and for violence to begin. To deprive another being of all qualities that give them their unique qualities that moral being is that overall concept of dehumanization. How does a housed human go from being a moral being to an immoral being that is willing and able to commit acts of violence on another being simply because they are homeless? Murders, assaults, rapes, fires, theft, torment and harassment, are all too common and the homeless have no help.
The lady in one article was quietly in her tent, bothering no one, and a man came by and literally set her tent on fire while she was inside, thankfully she got out and was okay, but what caused him to do such a thing? Dehumanization! Vermin, trash, addicts, alcoholics, and rats are common references to the homeless instead of human qualities. There have been homeless men rolled up in their sleeping bags shot and killed for no reason known reason. Vulnerable, unprotected, and not considered worthy of protection, so therefore open to wicked attacks, dehumanized.
There has always been an element of homelessness in this nation since its founding, but this current homeless population suffer like none before it. In older times family, church, and society banded together to help them through, even if they never got back into a house again, they were not demonized and dehumanized as they are today. Now gangs of kids are taunted, teased, and egged on to harass and harm the homeless as a game, a rite of passage and to break into the gang life, how have we sunk to this level?
Why do Dogs Receive More Compassion
What pulls at the heartstrings and opens pocketbooks faster than a dog who is starving or a skinny kitten who needs a bath? We see hundreds of those commercials every year and they get results. Why do they work so well, they highlight their total helplessness. Beaten abused and helpless animals were ‘worthy’ of help, but not humans, how is that possible? Animals were never ‘human’ so they cannot be dehumanized so we remain tender-hearted toward them.
There is no moral quandary with a four-legged furry creature. They could not have done anything wrong, immoral, or bad to end up in their given ‘bad’ situation so it is okay to help them. They are not messy and, on the corner, in the park, and under every bridge, it is just easier. With a pup or kitten, it is black and white, they need help, and they are helpless, so we step in and help, that is simple and easy, but not so with humans.
Conclusion
When you consider homelessness, and the Humans trapped in the wicked cycle I want you to think of what we have spoken of here and to consider these four points:
>It is morally right that animals get a better social response and funding than humans who are dying daily on the streets because of social training by the government
>Is it morally acceptable to use words such as trash, lazy, bum, derelict, addict, and vermin, to describe another being who has an immortal soul just as you do
>It is okay to blame the homeless for a problem they did not create, and they cannot fix even if they wanted, housing, we are housing the poor in this nation, and it is a storm in the making that was purposeful, and it is growing worse daily
>Is it morally right to stand down, to stand by, to ignore an entire group of people including grandparents to young children, who suffer violence, abuse, and even murder and do nothing?
And finally, in regards to the deplorable dehumanization of other living beings simply because life threw them a serious curve ball, remember this, you will reap exactly what you have and continue to sow.
CTA…
Answer this,
Answer this, puppies, kittens, lizards, turtles, hamsters, pot belly pigs, find support, funding, homes, and compassion, but why not humans struggling and dying
Answer this, to dehumanize is to open the door to violence and neglect, is it now okay in the post ‘me too’ society to live that style of life with no regrets
Answer this, do you have any fear in the topsy-turvy world of inflation and cost of living that you will Never end up out there yourself, in the world of dehumanization, think twice before answering
