Some Big Boys Made Me Do It
Apparently, and this may be news to you, littering isn’t a moral shortcoming of the people actually dropping the litter:
Which seems awfully convenient, for a certain kind of person, if not entirely convincing.
Litter – and its inegalitarian distribution – is a topic we’ve touched on before. From which, this came to mind:
But neither he nor the authors of said report explore an obvious factor. The words “drop” and “littering” simply don’t appear anywhere in the report, thereby suggesting that the food-smeared detritus and other unsightly objects just fall from the clouds mysteriously when the locals are asleep.
The report that Mr Matthews cites, supposedly as evidence of unfairness, actually states that council cleaning resources are “skewed towards deprived neighbourhoods” – with councils spending up to five times more on those areas than they spend on cleaning more respectable neighbourhoods. And yet even this is insufficient to overcome the locals’ antisocial behaviour.
A regular visit by a council cleaning team, even one equipped with military hardware, won’t compensate for a dysfunctional attitude towards littering among both children and their parents. And fretting about inequalities in litter density is a little odd if you don’t consider how the litter gets there in the first place. Yet this detail isn’t investigated and the report can “neither confirm nor reject the idea that resident attitudes and behaviours are significant drivers of environmental problems.”
And Mr Matthews, our Urban Studies lecturer, is educating teenagers. Telling them how it is.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
‘Communist’ is just a mask for being a shitty human being.
Well, I think it’s fair to say that Mr, um, Chloddy isn’t dealing with demurral particularly well. He seems very keen on dismissing contrary arguments, unanswered, in favour of insults, name-calling and repeated use of the words “right wing.” As if that were some kind of mic drop.
He also has thoughts of this kind. The meaning of which I leave to the reader.
Whether communists are human beings is open to debate.
Mr Chloddy is now limiting any reproduction of his claims, hence the replacement of the embed with a screengrab.
There is a lot of racism in America. But it’s not among the group leftists point to.
Wanye, you cannot expect a good faith argument from someone whose bio says “bullshit femboy”.
Theodore Dalrymple wrote an entire book on the subject.
[ Note to self: Always take screengrabs. ]
No one is above the law . . .
I’m only astounded they didn’t suggest ‘right wing’ litterbugs came in under cover of darkness to litter in ‘deprived’ neighbourhoods…
That old Christian standby . . .
As I said in the original thread,
I remember wondering how someone could literally wade through garbage every time they walked to and from their own front door. As if this were perfectly normal. And the thing is, while modest, the neighbourhood itself – the physical structures – wouldn’t have been such an utter shithole if better people were living there.
Chloddy should travel more. Japan doesn’t have many public trashcans. You are expected to carry your trash until you find a disposal point.
Exactly. I’ve been doing that my entire life…why can’t others?
From the Wanye Burkett thread:
Becoming a parent would, I think, make quite a few modish political conceits much harder to sustain.
Argh! When walking around Tokyo any urban American is going to be struck by clean streets AND the absence of garbage barrels on these streets.
What, they have hordes of “municipal waste services and street cleaning” people out picking things up 24/7?
No. It is the culture in Japan that one takes responsibility for their own garbage and takes it home (or at least to bins located inside of train/subway stations near the immaculately clean restrooms). Indeed, the thoughtful tourist reads up on stuff like “how to behave and not annoy the locals in Japan” to know that you do NOT stuff your face with food as you’re walking down the street and you never ever litter.
This is also the complaint I have when certain people go into national or state parks and trash the campgrounds and picnic areas. One of the first rules of wilderness etiquette is you ‘take out what you brought in’ – closely followed by ‘leave your campsite cleaner than how you found it’.
… is it too early for day drinking?
[ Considers merits of a gin and tonic. ]