Comments on: The War On Vice In The East End https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/05/30/east-end-vice/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 31 May 2024 15:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/05/30/east-end-vice/#comment-1577690 Fri, 31 May 2024 15:49:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199789#comment-1577690 Horrible being regarded through someone else’s prejudices and expectations, especially when both do so much harm. Create the conditions for a hellish existence, then step back to admire the result. And then step back in with “helpful” advice.

Imagine others offering one therapy.

Well, they are both dead.

]]> By: Jennifer Newbold https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/05/30/east-end-vice/#comment-1577423 Thu, 30 May 2024 15:48:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=199789#comment-1577423 I would hope that the troubling attitude of the interventionists in the middle part of the 20th century is a thing of the past, but humanity is a judgmental race…

One thing I would say with certainty is that it is very difficult to genuinely help people with whom you can’t–won’t–identify, and it risks becoming self-righteousness, or at the least, condescension. It was the key piece that was missing from Ramsey’s and Willliamson’s initiatives.

Such a difference from Malcolm Johnson’s outreach at St Botolph’s.

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