When encountering some bedraggled figure on the sidewalk, what do you feel? Sympathy? Fear? Resentment? Does your heart hurt or your lip curl?
The latest: Somebody threw hot coffee on a couple of people in separate, random attacks on Douglas Street.
Non-street people tend to dump all street people in the same basket.
Note that one of David Eby’s first acts as premier this week was to announce — in what looked like a bit of a political Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus conversion — public-safety measures that include a shift in bail policy and a crackdown on violent, repeat offenders. One of the things about being involved with the Times Colonist Christmas Fund is that it dispels preconceptions of what needs looks like. In real life, the faces of the marginalized rarely match our expectations. Many of us — OK, I — tend to envision either a Tiny Tim pauper who will accept our seasonal largesse with suitable gratitude, or an objectionable character whom it is easy to write off as a lost and undeserving cause.
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