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thrash-dude t1_j2f4ld3 wrote

Reply to comment by the_turdfurguson in McDonalds workers take in more than 50 people during storm by citytiger

People have been told since they are kids don't just strangers into your house. It is also the plot to a thousand movies about someone letting a kind stranger into their house.

I don't blame people who turned them away. You hear stories about bad things all the time in the news. It's fucked up that you can't trust people but that's the reality.

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CSC160401 t1_j2fhzlf wrote

The real problem here is kinda the culture of America rn. We just don’t trust each other like that. It’s great that someone did help these people and I believe we should all do that when we see others in our communities in need. But with the extreme violence we endure in this country I absolutely understand those that choose not to help bc there’s always a chance some lunatic will take advantage of the situation, and that’s just worst case scenario. On a less extreme degree there could be some kind of disagreement between people that could escalate very quickly and end up violent. In this country u never rly know who’s just waiting to pop off, or what could happen to set someone off.

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MURDUR_GURL t1_j2fm956 wrote

Not sure if you’ve read “Let’s Not Meet,” but this culture is everywhere.

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the_turdfurguson t1_j2f4rxd wrote

… it’s not a great sense of community that a man led a group of stranded people house to house getting denied 12 times forcing them to break into a school

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redice141 t1_j2f5l3f wrote

People started to circulate on social media that there was a group of people asking for shelter and then once inside, would rob them. No evidence that this ever happened, but I don't blame people for not letting someone into their home.

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the_turdfurguson t1_j2f5sht wrote

Nobody is blaming them, it’s not a sense of community lol. Nothing I said faulted their reasoning, but it’s absolutely not a sense of community

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redice141 t1_j2fb2jb wrote

One story doesn't dictate the entire event. The amount of stories coming out of this storm 100 percent shows a sense of community, even if they are not getting coverage nationwide.

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the_turdfurguson t1_j2fr2s2 wrote

Lol, this specific story was people trying to twist it as a great sense of community because 12 households not feeling the community enough to save them so they broke into a school to survive.

That specific community has a poor sense of inclusiveness. There’s no twisting it

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