There's a shitlist of terms I have in my head for people who show red flags for holding latent reactionary beliefs and this one is way high up on it. It still sits below when someone uses the singular noun form, such as "a homeless."
But yeah, if you're using a collective noun to refer to homeless people as "the homeless" by then I've got my eye on you.
Most people wouldn't refer to "the blacks" or "the gays" but it's still pretty acceptable to refer to "the homeless". If you're doing that, you're part of the problem.
(Obviously with a username like Clown World we're dealing with a situation where there's nothing latent about it, but still.)
There's a shitlist of terms I have in my head for people who show red flags for holding latent reactionary beliefs and this one is way high up on it. It still sits below when someone uses the singular noun form, such as "a homeless."
But yeah, if you're using a collective noun to refer to homeless people as "the homeless" by then I've got my eye on you.
Most people wouldn't refer to "the blacks" or "the gays" but it's still pretty acceptable to refer to "the homeless". If you're doing that, you're part of the problem.
(Obviously with a username like Clown World we're dealing with a situation where there's nothing latent about it, but still.)