Like... damn...
Liberals seem to have this downright Reagan-tier rhetoric towards homeless people, you'd hear the phrase "contributes nothing to society..." so fucking often you'd swear reality was repeating itself.
Their so smug and shameless about it too; " Sorry sweaty 🤗 But Fuck The Homeless and I frankly couldn't care less if the police were to bash their skulls in and drag them down to the fiery pits of hell ✨ 💅". They take such a ruthless 'Tough-on-Crime' stance it would make Rodrigo Duterte blush.
I get that it isn't JUST Liberals who express these sentiments, but aren't these the same people who tout themselves as being 'Progressive' and wanting everyone to be free?
It's easy when you buy into hyper-individualist mythology where environmental factors have no influence on anything and history doesn't exist. When everyone's standing in society is determined exclusively by having the right ideas and making the right choices, clearly the only reason anyone would end up on the street within the perfect equity of liberal democracy is because they're idiots who make terrible decisions.
On a broader scope, contempt of the poor is necessary for people to support austerity and neo-colonialism while still believing themselves to be on the right side of history. If the poor weren't inherently evil it would be bad when homeless encampments get bulldozed and families get drone striked, but since poverty is a personal failing any and all punishments are really just a way to motivate people to lift themselves up by their bootstraps so these sort of things don't happen. Hating the homeless is helping them, actually.
also, "if the world isn't just, then maybe i don't actually deserve my status? well shit that can't be right"
it's the Victorian model of working backwards from everyone basically makes enough money because the system is good to the poor must have brought this on themselves