City subreddits are pretty trash as is, unmasking just how unbelievably cruel and evil some people are whenever the topic of homeless people crops up. But of all the active subreddits for my city, the main one, /r/Portland, is tame. (/r/askportland is SURPRISINGLY kind, with the occasional evil piece of shit passing through.)
I thought /r/PortlandOR was evil—it’s all but an explicit hate sub—but I found an even worse one. Behold, a pale horse: /r/PortlandCriddlers.
(“Criddle” is a slang term in the meth community around here—it means stealing, or more specifically, at least how I understand it, rifling through someone’s shit with the intention of stealing, i.e. ”Someone criddled my tent”.)
I would not be surprised if someone has posted photos of me or my friends, and I’m honestly afraid to look. It would not surprise me either, if whoever tried to pepper spray me a couple months ago is subscribed to this sub. The language used to refer to homeless people is dehumanizing and disgusting and it borders on incitement. But what’s really funny is I distinctly remember getting someone permabanned by reporting a post that used very similar language. I know Reddit is a cesspool and you don’t care but it takes like a minute to report a couple posts for “hate” or “threatening violence.” And it will do something to curb the growing trend of violence committed against homeless people. A drop in the bucket, but still. It will also be kinda funny to own these motherfuckers.
It never occurred to me how so many videos complaining about homeless people show cars and RVs on the side of the road. Surely the thought of “these people work enough to afford a car but everything is still too expensive to afford a proper home” must’ve entered their mind, right? It’s wild that people still have the image of a typical hobo with a stick and dotted bandana when they hear “homeless.”
Do they realize millions of people work a job, often times multiple jobs, pay taxes and everything, and still can’t afford a home? And this is fucking Portland, one of the most expensive cities lol. Do they think people are profiting off by faking homelessness or something?
Nah, these particular posters just straight up hate the poor. It's real mask off. To the point that Reddit actually might consider banning this sub if it gets enough reports for the right admin to see it
They really hate us. It’s fucked up, and scary, how you can kinda get away with advocating violence against homeless drug users, or at least call for the abrogation of our civil rights.
These fuckfaces are even calling for the end of bottle deposits, because we use it as a source of income. Joke’s on them when we have to resort to robbery and grand theft.