I heard the police chief interviewed on NPR. His rationale for posting the photos was, this is the situation and we have no resources to deal with it. The police can arrest them and send them through the criminal justice pipeline. They come out the other end, usually worse off than before. He wanted to point out how…
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I was raised in a loving, relatively financially secure household. I never did drugs. I was unaware of what addiction looks like, until my brother became a heroin addict. No one really knows what it’s like until they are forced to live with it.
I remain hopeful that the photo acted not as a deterrent for potential heroin users, but as a call to arms about the social services crisis we’re in. CPS budgets are being cut while caseloads are at an all-time high. States can’t bring in enough foster parents to care for all the children being removed from situations…
I wrote this above, I’mnewt a reflexive defender of cops but I think this thread has it wrong on the intentions. They shouldn’t have posted this picture, but I heard an interview with one of the cops and I didn’t hear a hint of grandstanding or anything they are being accused of in this thread. The cop sounded…
There are lots of people unaware. I know about this through news reports but to my knowledge I don’t know a single person who has used heroin (cannot say the same for about any other drug besides meth). I’m in my mid-30s and live in an urban area.
I disagree. When a photo like this goes viral, it can affect public policy and drive more funds to CPS, which is my primary concern. It holds politicians’ feet to the fire. Change happens when the general public gets upset about something and this photo managed to get a lot of people upset.
Yep you are right. And thank you for being a foster parent. The world needs more people like you.
I don’t think they’re as aware as they need to be of the number of children affected by heroin addiction, and the absolute strain this has put on social services everywhere.
But there’s a specific crisis right now among children of addicts that really hasn’t been emphasized enough. I have done the training to become a foster parent and can speak to the fact that the system is absolutely overrun because of heroin. More emphasis needs to be placed on the children of addicts, who only get…
You can advocate for rehab and still highlight the fact that that thousands of children are being abused and neglected right now by addicts and this abuse is ruining their lives. They shouldn’t have shown the child’s face, but I think the public needs to see images like this to drive home how serious the crisis is.
I disagree. I think they are saying “look at this shit we see everyday. Please stop hurting kids”.
Considering people like this to be “irredeemable” and “deplorables” is not a presidential attitude. She has to lead the entire country — not just the parts she likes or respects. She should focus on the beliefs and attitudes that are deplorable, not the people, and try more to understand where this negativity is…
I know that this may not be a popular opinion but I’m ambivalent about polygamy as long as all parties are in accord, and it is equally available to all genders.
It isn’t assault because she said it was not assault, and viewed it as a happy event.
Agreed. What specifically bugs me is that when specifically asked if she was assaulted in that picture, she said she wasn’t and that it was a happy event.
Probably because she flat out said she didn’t see it as assault. If she was fine with it, then I’m fine with it.
No, it is not. Greta gets to decide if she felt that way about it. And she specifically said she didn’t view it as assault before her passing.
You might walk around your entire life thinking about that, or you might just live a good life and muddle through the difficult parts like most adults. Don’t speak for all women, please.
While this might look to modern eyes like some sort of assault, this photo does capture the mass outburst of joy that came with V-J day. With four years of hundreds -sometimes thousands- of American lives lost every day, not to mention the rationing and recycling on the civilian front (imagine the screaming that would…