White Guilt and the Fetishization of Homeless Junkies

• 1:03:44White women make excuses for why someone is shooting fentanyl in a Panera.
• 1:04:00Certain white people get off on explaining to their kids that other people are on drugs, treating it like a teachable moment.
• 1:04:30Tim describes a specific type of person who believes homeless people are fun educational experiences for their children.
• 1:05:00This pathology of fetishizing sick people dying on the street is something Tim encountered on the West Coast—LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
• 1:05:32Tech and finance people probably grab homeless people and murder them or light them on fire late at night to get off.
• 1:05:57Kids in Los Angeles have favorite homeless people, with families claiming their unhoused neighbor brings toys for their son.
• 1:06:19When the Echo Park homeless encampment was busted in LA—where a woman died of a fentanyl overdose—the community of people who fetishize dying homeless hated it.
• 1:06:34Families walk their kids around homeless encampments and show their children dying people, treating fentanyl addicts like animals in a zoo.

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