This Video of Homeless People Reading Mean Tweets Is Devastating
by German Lopez - Vox
Culture • April 2015 • Views: 2,378
Raising the Roof of Canada, an organization that aims to eliminate homelessness, filmed people without homes reading some of the most terrible comments written about them on social media, ranging from remarks about how they smell to dehumanizing insults.
It’s a startling, upsetting visual that not only humanizes homelessness, but also shows the damage someone can do in 140 characters.
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