spectral means

is a lazy methodolgoical approach whereby one is identified not by talking to them but by simply looking at them.

A lazy logic whereby one is identified not by talking to them, but by simply looking at them. 'The homelss can also be defined by how they look. To describe someone as 'homeless' announces a lasting identity. When used, the adjective is lasting and all-encompassing: jouirnalist and others often speak of a 'homeless' woman or man with the same certitude that they identify someone as a doctor, a politician, or a white man. Homelessness denotes a temporary lack of housing, but connotes a lasting moral career. Because this 'idenity' is deemed suffiecient and interchangeable, the 'homeless' usually go unnamed. The identification is typically achieved through spectral means: one knows the homeless not by talkign with them but by seeing them. Such a similar logic of appearances apparently aided the New York railroad police when they arrested twenty-four people who 'appeared homeless' in Grand Central Station.'

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spectral means