Having associated more with people from a nuclear-family/Christian upbringing and only observing the thug-life/gangsta-worship "culture" from a safe distance, I did not yet realize how deeply ingrained this "lifestyle" was among Leftist/Democrat blacks, their Lovely Ladies, and the self-hating whites who attempt to emulate them.

Yes, I knew there were cases of people coming from an environment of multi-generational welfare, illegitimacy, and rejection of common-sense American values and concepts. I did not know there was a whole massive "culture" shift toward seeing this as an ideal, much less enough baizuo/Democrats/etc encouraging it to be taken seriously. It's very weird to see this insanity outside of TV/MSM: I actually personally know Leftists who blame 100% of POC Problems on white people/"racist police" and claim that POCs are "oppressed" (despite the rise of "Affirmative Action"/gibsmedat while denying personal responsibility for illegitimacy/shameless crime/knock-out-game etc.)

tl;dr I attempted to work with a local homeless shelter because I was concerned with the sudden onslaught of homeless people in my failing Flyover-State town. A year of the Red Pills gleaned from that experience turned me into Colin Flaherty.