answer:It’s one of my biggest annoyances when I’m told – as I have been told by people right here on ask-public – that when I go hungry here, it’s somehow different or better than someone who goes hungry in Somalia or Nicaragua. Or that nearly dying of dehydration on a sidewalk in the summer because I was homeless, couldn’t get water, and no one would stop to help is somehow different from nearly dying of dehydration in the Gobi Desert or the Australian outback. That being forced to live in constant fear of being stopped and harassed, beaten, or shot by police here is different from being forced to live in constant fear of being stopped and harassed, beaten, or shot by police in Burma or Russia. It is especially galling when crypto-fascist apologists discount any criticism of anything so long as there is a worse case anywhere else on Earth. No one’s abuse, oppression, suffering, or despair can even be acknowledged, much less fixed unless you are the absolute most miserable, hungry, tormented, downtrodden person on the face of the planet. (And that person, wherever she or he is, is already being completely ignored; which is why he or she is that person.)