Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that, as a homeless woman, she is more likely than not to have been a victim of sexual violence both at home and on the street, but that's just from statistics, not from any knowledge of her specific situation. Because I really don't know anything about this woman, I would never think to write an opinion piece condemning her as lazy, conniving, undeserving, and fat, because to do so would be an embarrassing display of my ignorance and mean-spiritedness. It's too bad that George Hicks does not have the same self-censoring mechanism...
Rather than stigmatize the poor people with whom we share this city, use the tremendous potential and resources granted to you by your affiliation with this institution to effect real, structural change that will give people who are homeless the opportunities they need to construct productive, fulfilling lives for themselves...
George Hicks makes a round of cruel and senseless comments about the homeless in Harvard Square. Beyond his ignorance on homelessness (which I won't address here), his contempt for obese people is downright disturbing. Hicks comfortably uses this woman's weight as a point of ridicule and a "fact" to disqualify her neediness. Hicks' snide confusion over an "obese beggar" demonstrates total ignorance about the nature of obesity and poverty. Hicks (an economics concentrator) is "missing something here." It's more expensive to be thin than fat in America today...
...forgive Hicks' inhumanity--whether he's talking about the situation of the homeless or the size of an individual. Maybe Hicks and other Harvard students who share his views should think a little more deeply...
...homeless man was reported to be sleeping in a Pound Building classroom. The subject was gone upon the officer's arrival...