>>789218Haha! Well done! While unorthodox, role-playing someone who's even more ignorant than you actually are is a good way to expose fallacies you might not otherwise have had the opportunity to showcase. Have a related story.
>downtown in Eugene Oregon last summer with a few of the other actual travelers>wingnut tweaker with a shopping cart comes up and starts trying to interact with us>We ignore her while she tries to spange us for everything imaginable >eventually begin singing song about wingnuts to make her leave>She flails away down the sidewalk >twenty minutes later>officer walks up and asks where Anna went>tell him we don't know who that is>he seems surprised, says it's woman with the shaved head and shopping cart(previous wingnut) >we tell him we don't know her or where she went>he seems surprised again, asks why she was hanging with us>explain that it's essentially a free sidewalk and that we can't prevent people from lingering around us>he says we shouldn't associate with her or people like her>again reiterate that its not necessarily our choice to interact with them in such situations, that just because we're homeless doesn't mean we automatically know all the others or want to hang with them-especially addicts like the girl he was looking for>moments pass while he processes this as if it were some magical revelation>tells us to have a good day and leaves I mean, the guy works with homeless every day, you'd think he'd know there was a hierarchy which includes everything from patsies who knowingly work for the CIA or Masons to deranged mentally unstable addicts and everything between.
