{"id":9145,"date":"2018-07-17T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:18:22","slug":"horrible-rich-lady-takes-out-full-page-anti-homeless-ad-in-the-chron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/17\/horrible-rich-lady-takes-out-full-page-anti-homeless-ad-in-the-chron\/","title":{"rendered":"Horrible Rich Lady Takes Out Full-Page Anti-Homeless Ad in the\u00a0Chron"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<p class=\"lead\">Have we reached peak tone-deafness? Probably not, but a $30,000 anti-homeless broadside from a fake advocacy organization will be hard to beat.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"author-meta\">\n<li><a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Peter Lawrence Kane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/author\/pkane\/\" rel=\"author\">Peter Lawrence Kane<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mon Jul 16th, 2018 (SFWeekly.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed.jpg\" sizes=\"\n     (max-width: 640px) 640px,\n     (max-width: 1024px) 1024px,\n     (max-width: 1200px) 1200px,\n     (min-width: 1201px) 1200px, 100vw\" srcset=\"http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed.jpg 800w, http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed-30x23.jpg 30w, http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed-300x225@2x.jpg 600w, http:\/\/1ryzas42x65e2oosia40bgli.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rsz_6unnamed-30x23@2x.jpg 60w\" alt=\"\" \/><em>The skylight under which the alleged non-crime occurred (Peter Lawrence Kane)<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-attachment medium wp-caption-text\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Friday the 13th was a big day at the\u00a0<em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, with longtime restaurant critic\u00a0<strong>Michael Bauer<\/strong>\u00a0announcing that he would be stepping away from that role in September after 32 years. But on the business side of things, beyond the firewall that separates ads from editorial, was a truly disturbing sight: a full-page broadside, taken out by an anonymous Neiman Marcus shopper with the cash to pay for it, denouncing homelessness in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, an organization called\u00a0<strong>Fed Up Populace Campaign<\/strong>, which seems to have zero presence online, shelled out the necessary $30,000. And it should horrify anyone who\u2019s a member of the paying-any-attention-whatsoever community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"9:41 AM - Jul 13, 2018\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1017811149008457728\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\"><a class=\"MediaCard-borderOverlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" role=\"presentation\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\/photo\/1\"><span class=\"u-hiddenVisually\">View image on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 600px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 133.3333%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset NaturalImage\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dh_9tkvVMAAFJWS?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" data-image=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dh_9tkvVMAAFJWS\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\" data-tweet-id=\"1017811149008457728\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header\"><a class=\"TweetAuthor-avatar  Identity-avatar u-linkBlend\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\" data-scribe=\"element:user_link\" aria-label=\"Robert Gammon (screen name: RobertGammon)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Avatar Avatar--edge\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/719560374115172352\/IaYnBMbK_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-scribe=\"element:avatar\" data-src-2x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/719560374115172352\/IaYnBMbK_bigger.jpg\" data-src-1x=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/719560374115172352\/IaYnBMbK_normal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"u-hiddenVisually js-aBScribingTarget\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-experiment-keys=\"tfw_normalized_tweet_holdback_6979\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor js-inViewportScribingTarget\" data-scribe=\"component:author\">\n<div class=\"TweetAuthor-nameScreenNameContainer\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-decoratedName\"><span class=\"TweetAuthor-name Identity-name customisable-highlight\" title=\"Robert Gammon\" data-scribe=\"element:name\">Robert Gammon<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TweetAuthor-screenName Identity-screenName\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"@RobertGammon\" data-scribe=\"element:screen_name\">@RobertGammon<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Woah.<\/p>\n<p>The SF Chronicle ran a full-page ad today that bashes homeless people with obvious mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>And if that were not bad enough, it was paid by an anonymous donor that calls her group, Fed Up Populace Campaign &#8212; a shady org that doesn&#8217;t have a website.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-metadata dateline\"><a class=\"u-linkBlend u-url customisable-highlight long-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\" data-datetime=\"2018-07-13T16:41:02+0000\" data-scribe=\"element:full_timestamp\"><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: July 13, 2018 16:41:02 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-07-13T16:41:02+0000\">9:41 AM &#8211; Jul 13, 2018<\/time><\/a><\/div>\n<ul class=\"Tweet-actions Tweet-action--newsActions\" role=\"menu\" data-scribe=\"component:actions\" aria-label=\"Tweet actions\">\n<li class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--newsAction\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--heartEdge TweetAction-icon\" role=\"img\" data-scribe=\"element:heart\"><a class=\"Tweet-action--heart TweetAction TweetAction--heartEdge\" title=\"Like\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1017811149008457728\" data-scribe=\"component:actions\"><span class=\"TweetAction-stat\" data-scribe=\"element:heart_count\">203<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--newsAction\">\n<div class=\"Icon Icon--replyEdge TweetAction-icon\" role=\"img\" data-scribe=\"element:conversation_icon\"><a class=\"Tweet-action--replyEdge TweetAction TweetAction--replyEdge\" title=\"View the conversation on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGammon\/status\/1017811149008457728\" data-scribe=\"component:news\"><span class=\"TweetAction-stat\" data-scribe=\"element:conversation_text\">303 people are talking about this<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWatch Your Backs \u2014 Nobody Else Is,\u201d its headline screams. \u201c\u2026 as if stepping over used syringes and filth in Maiden Lane wasn\u2019t bad enough \u2026\u201d [ellipses in original].<\/p>\n<p>Dipping a three-foot-long tailfeather from an extinct songbird into an inkwell encrusted with blood diamonds, the writer then goes on to relate the anecdote of The Time She Actually Had to Set Her Eyes Upon an Unhoused Person With Mental Illness.\u00a0<em>SF Weekly<\/em>\u00a0has reached out to various antifa groups to glean if this isn\u2019t a parody intended to heighten the contradictions and usher in the revolution on an accelerated timeline, but it appears to be real. Here it is in full, emphases ours:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, I went into the Fresh Market Cafe at Neiman Marcus on Geary St. to have a sandwich. I was seated at a table with my back to the food counter. Over my right shoulder and behind me I noticed a youngish homeless man\u00a0<strong>acting<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>silent<\/strong>, strange, and trying to peer over the food counter. It struck me how out of context this was and thinking to myself how did he get here, deep into the cafe?<\/p>\n<p>Feeling uneasy after a few minutes and thinking of a purse snatching, I got up to get my purse and move my table. I turned around and saw this homeless person wielding a large pair of SCISSORS that he was opening and closing erratically, previously behind my back! Horrified, I yelled to the waitress and hurried to the other side of the restaurant. While waiting patiently for security, this\u00a0<strong>psychotic<\/strong>\u00a0homeless person took a glass of water and walked out of the door onto Geary St. wielding the scissors.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco city fathers and those who whould be held accountable for our public safety have for years let us all down by\u00a0<strong>catering to the lowest common denominator<\/strong>. We, the tax-paying, responsible\u00a0<strong>contributing members of society have had our quality of life as San Franciscans seriously compromised<\/strong>, dangerously so.<\/p>\n<p>Sit with your backs to the wall, fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Signed,<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous disgusted female San Francisco resident (for now)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We live in a world where concerned citizen-racists call the cops on people of color for selling water or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/coupon-carl-calls-cops-on-black-woman-at-cvs-for-alle-1827610838\">using coupons<\/a>, and now we have Neiman-Marcus patrons taking out full-page ads in newspapers because they had a run-in with a weird person.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this open letter to the, um, \u201cCity Fathers\u201d \u2014 might that include women like Mayor London Breed or Board of Supervisors President Malia Cohen, or\u00a0nah? \u2014 we know the writer\u2019s gender but not her age or her race or ethnicity. But we can probably conclude it\u2019s not\u00a0<strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>, who usually restricts her full-page ads to the usual \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/war-over-if-you-want-it-john-and-yoko-40-years-later\/\">WAR IS OVER (IF YOU WANT IT)<\/a>\u201d around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Yelping a homeless person is considerably less benign than calling for peace. Beyond the armchair psychoanalysis, and the visceral disgust at someone \u201cacting silent\u201d \u2014 also known as merely existing \u2014 it\u2019s basically a call for counter-revolution. Get rid of these unsightly subhumans\u00a0<em>or else<\/em>, this maybe-soon-to-be-ex-San-Franciscan demands. It\u2019s naked class warfare, haves versus have-nots in an unaffordable paradise. Since Neiman-Marcus is pretty high-end, and the sandwiches in its \u201cposh nosh\u201d cafe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neimanmarcus.com\/category\/stores\/12SF\/menu\/012_FreshMarket_menu_Mar2017.pdf\">run from $13 to $18<\/a>, we can reasonably conclude that the writer lives fairly comfortably, under at least one roof \u2014 and not just because her totally-made-up, fly-by-night political organization with zero other members has money to burn on fits of pique.<\/p>\n<p>By way of condensing the most urgent, intractable social issue in contemporary San Francisco to a quick summary, let\u2019s just note that homelessness is not an aesthetic problem and moneyed shoppers are not its primary victims. Further, while we may disagree vociferously on their methods and degrees of empathy, you can\u2019t seriously believe that the city\u2019s political class needs to awake from its slumber and realize that a problem exists. (It\u2019s also much too large for the city to tackle on its own. As\u00a0<em>SF Weekly<\/em>\u00a0has analyzed in the past,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent\/\">much of the blame can be pinned on the Reagan Administration<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the zenith of narcissism to assume that because you had a random quasi-encounter with someone who made you uncomfortable \u2014 but who didn\u2019t actually speak to you or touch you, let alone snatch your purse \u2014 homelessness has finally become a civic emergency at last. Never mind that, though. Why would someone drop so much money on such a frivolous vanity project? As a reminder of what $30,000 will buy you, that would be 1,875 maple-glazed turkey club sandwiches at Neiman\u2019s, enough to provide a nice lunch for one in every four San Franciscans experiencing homelessness. Alternately, it\u2019s an entire year\u2019s salary for a minimum-wage earner in San Francisco. If you make $15 an hour for 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, you\u2019ll pull in exactly $30,000 before taxes. We don\u2019t know how much Melania\u2019s \u201cI Really Don\u2019t Care, Do You\u201d jacket cost, but you could probably nab at least one of those for 30K.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part of this isn\u2019t the sense of entitlement, or even the writer\u2019s shock that someone whose physical appearance suggests they sleep outside could somehow swim across Neiman\u2019s moat and scale its walls. No. The worst thing is the brazenly fascist idea that \u201ctax-paying, responsible contributing members of society\u201d deserve to live where they don\u2019t have to look at poor people \u2014 many of whom in fact hold jobs and pay taxes and \u201ccontribute.\u201d The creed that high-earners should get to dwell in a cosseted world of their own curation, or that more must yet be taken from those who have little in order to keep it all functioning smoothly, runs much deeper in San Francisco than we imagine it does. It\u2019s what gets those \u201ccity fathers\u201d upset when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/07\/02\/san-francisco-streets-streets-medical-convention\/\">medical conferences opt to convene in another city<\/a>, taking their hotel taxes with them. It\u2019s even the guiding principle behind self-declared socialist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/elon-musk-socialist-marx-capitalist\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s warped and completely backward understanding of socialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In actuality, what these people want is unbridled capitalism at its cruellest and most hideously efficient, backed by a police state, because they can afford it. They demand that the non-monetizable, \u201cunproductive\u201d homeless simply not be here at all \u2014 and like hyper-affluent crybabies whining about the prospect of fair taxation, they threaten to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/taxes\/report\/obamas-taxmageddon-tax-increase-would-hurt-job-creation\">take their ball and go to one of their several other homes<\/a>\u00a0if they don\u2019t get what they want.<\/p>\n<p>In decrying S.F.\u2019s \u201ccatering to the lowest common denominator,\u201d the writer reveals her hand. She doesn\u2019t want the city to \u201cdo something,\u201d because doing something only attracts more of\u00a0<em>them<\/em>; she wants San Francisco to do precisely nothing \u2014 except banish them by force, so that the unsightly, the mentally ill, and the flat-broke never pollute Maiden Lane with their presence again. But that\u2019s too impolitic for an advertorial, and even Tucker Carlson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0saw fit to qualify Fed Up Populace\u2019s criticisms with some truths (link\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/14\/san-francisco-ad-watch-your-back-homeless-people\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0if you really must). So the writer felt the need to invent a group of people who she assumes feel just as she does, giving her complaint a veneer of legitimacy. The scariest thought is that in a supposedly liberal city bursting with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, she probably didn\u2019t even have to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note from Mike Zint, First They Came for the Homeless:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>$30,000 for the ad, nothing for those suffering. That is how rich people are. All about self.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous? Why are you hiding? What are you scared of?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll answer that. You are scared you will be exposed as being a hater. You are scared that your peers will not support your views.<\/p>\n<p>You are beneath every homeless person. You are the scum that scum doesn&#8217;t want around. Yes, stay hidden. No one wants to know you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we reached peak tone-deafness? Probably not, but a $30,000 anti-homeless broadside from a fake advocacy organization will be hard to beat. 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