tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108272364747244016.post4457459252827759557..comments2023-10-11T05:40:32.022-07:00Comments on Sacramento Homeless blog: Plungers in our midstAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108272364747244016.post-89543719729621339152009-06-07T05:56:33.415-07:002009-06-07T05:56:33.415-07:00Every good decent American citizen who wants to kn...<b>Every good decent American citizen who wants to know what life is like for the homeless should take a plunge and be refreshed by connected reality! Consider it a real cultural enrichment experiment! Take the plunge!</b>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04426405408184810197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108272364747244016.post-41240778037740446932009-06-03T14:47:18.153-07:002009-06-03T14:47:18.153-07:00Yo, Ryan: Here is a blogpost relating to a San Fr...Yo, Ryan: Here is a <a href="http://ccf-ignite.blogspot.com/2008/06/homeless-plunge.html" rel="nofollow">blogpost relating to a San Francisco plunge</a> approx a year ago.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108272364747244016.post-68087215165490928902009-06-03T14:42:25.568-07:002009-06-03T14:42:25.568-07:00Hey, Ryan! [Always an honor to hear from you.]
I ...Hey, Ryan! [Always an honor to hear from you.]<br /><br />I much agree that plunging is likely to be significantly mis-informational. But [as I should have written], the jesuit high-school plungers are given some background before they take their dive.<br /><br />Also [for good or ill], they are escorted around some of the time to enable conversation with various, select homeless people to hear of those people's experience.<br /><br />I think it is a <i>mostly</i> valuable experience for the several [it's not that many] juniors at Jesuit High School who do the plunge. The jesuits, as you may know, are very intent on knowing the truth of situations and contributing to the benefit of the poor.<br /><br />There are other plunges, like the <a href="http://www.peacemakerinstitute.org/BW_street_retreat.html" rel="nofollow">one in Denver for adults</a>, that bug me quite a bit. They seem like liberals' exotic vacations, where you walk around smelling bad and pay a fancy-hotel rate to do so.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108272364747244016.post-57372108289159904532009-06-03T13:28:25.444-07:002009-06-03T13:28:25.444-07:00Wow, this is the first I'd heard of "plun...Wow, this is the first I'd heard of "plunging". It strikes me as an exceptionally inaccurate and unpredictable way of changing perspective. <br /><br />If they happen to check in to one of the few really nice shelters in a rich place like Marin, Sonoma or Dade County in Miami, for example, then "homelessness" is an overstated problem to them, and they'll likely come away reinforced in the idea that people out on the streets choose to be there because they are all winos, crackheads and nuts.<br /><br />On the other end, if their "plunge" was in the TL here in San Francisco ... oh man. They might be emotionally scarred for life. <br /><br />Either way, they only get to see people in the shelters they can personally access (gender, situation, etc.), and they aren't getting any perspective on homeless families, people living in SROs, vehicle dwellers, etc.Ryan Garouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01865354847453386481noreply@blogger.com