Yesterday, at CPC, we had a guy refer to a group of "low-income people" as "the human cockroaches of life." At City Hall. In a public forum. A woman sitting in the crowd was very upset, and I don't blame her one bit.
My late grandmother always said that "you have two ears and one mouth, so listen twice as much as you speak." I wish the idiot that came down to our commission yesterday would've done just that.
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You know Michael, I suppose it's ironic that cockroaches is the same term the Hutus used of Tutsi's in the genocide there. It's instructive how these types of words are used in an effort to 'dehumanize' human beings. It's so much easier to rationalize your hate that way.
I've said it before, I'm thankful you are down there at the Plan Commission.
bill
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