Cenk Uygur
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Rich Tech Bro: "I Don't Want To See Homeless Riff-Raff"
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February 20, 2016
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9:08Now PlayingJustin Keller wrote a letter to the mayor of San Francisco asking him to remove the homeless “riff-raff” from the streets of the city. He says that rich people earned the right to live there and shouldn’t have to live in fear of being accosted. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, and John Iadarola hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A San Francisco tech company founder is upset about the city's homelessness problem — not that at least 6,600 people are homeless in a city with skyrocketing housing costs, but that the "wealthy working people" and their relatives have to see them.
In an open letter to the San Francisco mayor and police chief, Justin Keller, the founder of Commando.io, described three incidents involving homeless people who were drunk or high and publicly distraught.
You might think Keller would go on to call for better mental health treatment or specific new policies to address homelessness. But he argued that the real problem was the effect the homeless have on the people around them, who had "earned" the right to live in San Francisco:”
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