Brooklyn Kids Could be Exposed to Porn, Pot Smoking
Nobody said it was easy raising kids in the big city. In Crown Heights, Brooklynian has a thread started by a parent who found his/ her son in a cloud of marijuana smoke at the Stroud Park playground. “A row of young men (some fathers of the children playing) sat on the benches right next…
Nobody said it was easy raising kids in the big city. In Crown Heights, Brooklynian has a thread started by a parent who found his/ her son in a cloud of marijuana smoke at the Stroud Park playground. “A row of young men (some fathers of the children playing) sat on the benches right next to monkey bars, slides, etc. all smoking weed and blowing the smoke literally into the kids faces,” said the poster. “What disturbed me the most was that this did not seem to bother anyone. The moms were oblivious, they didn’t care. Everything just seemed status quo.” One person suggested calling the police, while another parent responded, “You have to face the fact that smoking pot is part of the ‘culture’ in this part of town. You don’t have to like it, but that’s where you live … sometimes we either have to make peace with things we don’t like, do something to change them, or leave.” Meanwhile, Gowanus Lounge posted a letter from a Park Slope parent appalled by two men viewing porn at the Pacific Street public library. The parent hopes to organize the “sisters and brothers of PS” in a campaign for a smut-free library. The First Amendment was discussed, and one commenter suggested creating a separate children’s library. The picture at right is of a park in Amsterdam, where it’s also part of the “culture” to smoke pot in public (not really sure about viewing porn).
Smoking weed in playground and no one cares [Brooklynian]
Internet Porn at the Public Library in Boerum Hill [Gowanus Lounge]
Photo by janvanderweel.
8:24: Because anything you don’t like, you blame on poor minorities.
Try it:
“I’m not surprised to hear that AN ILLEGAL FIREWORKS DISPLAY occurred in Crown Heights, given that neighborhood’s high concentration of poverty, crime, and low-income housing. It goes with the territory.”
“I’m not surprised to hear that SWEET SWEET DOPE SMOKING occurred in Crown Heights, given that neighborhood’s high concentration of poverty, crime, and low-income housing. It goes with the territory.”
You get the point.
Anything that’s fun and illegal is fair game for blaming on your racist demon of choice as it’s fair odds that as EVERYONE does it, you’ll likely be right.
Barely-concealed racism is fun!
“I’m not surprised to hear that this occurred in Crown Heights, given that neighborhood’s high concentration of poverty, crime, and low-income housing. It goes with the territory.”
What does any of that have to do with smoking pot, an activity, according to this very thread, that is equally, if not more enjoyed by white, upper middle class people living in “better” neighborhoods?
“If these people getting high in the playground are not taking care of kids, then they are legally not supposed to be there.”
I don’t think that is true, unless you are a registered pedophile. We haven’t gotten so restricted by law and Homeland Security that you can’t sit in the park. The appropriateness of pot smoking is another story, but just sitting near kids in a park is not illegal.
To the poster who posted: “What’s appaling is people who blindly accept behaviours that are not appropriate and ridicule people who want to make the community they’ve made their home a better place for everyone, black, white, poor, rich.”
What’s truly appalling is the need of one person to decide what appropriate for all the diverse individuals in his or her neighborhood. (And judge those who don’t fall in line.) Like it or not, if you’re not satisfied with your neighborhood it’s your problem and no one has to adjust their behaviors (legal or not) to suit you.
If you have a problem with people smoking pot in parks/in front of their kids/ in front of YOUR kids, deal with it. Call the cops if you think that’s the correct answer. But don’t assume it should be anyone else’s problem or that the community in general has to think the same way as you do about it.
If you’re looking for that kind of “blind” conformity, Brooklyn is a poor choice of places to live. There are just too many kinds of people here. And I, for one, think that’s great! I don’t like or approve of everything my neighbors do. But I respect the right of each of my neighbors to make his or her own decisions…that includes you and the person smoking pot sitting next to you in a park. If you have a problem with that person, that’s your beef. Take it up with them.
A 21-year-old man died Sunday from gunshot wounds after he was found sprawled on a Brooklyn streetcorner, cops said.
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Super article which tells both sides:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,384815,00.html
I think I’ll keep on puffin.
Any science for us 2:20? Ya didn’t think so.
By the way real conservatives think people should be able to do whatever they want with their own lives/bodies short of hurting someone else. Guess you’re one of the dittoheads.
2:20: “I’m far from innocent and have had my share of fun but would never inflict or expose others…”
In other words: you puff puff, but don’t pass?
Weak.
Seriously, though: sounds like your entire (tl;dr) point was “I’m mature enough to handle it, but you’re not. Unless you do it my way.”
I’d call you a Republitard, but that’s really the classic Liberal stance…
2:23, why does a mentino of poverty and crime make you think of black people?
Racist.