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?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Fortunately this is not a problem in the UK... Not even slightly.

    In fact, if you treated or said anything bad about the homeless you're honestly likely to get decked. There might be some rhetoric about drug use etcetc but people pretty much universally understand the homeless are victims.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]
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      3 years ago

      Amongst younger and/or lower class people I'd say you're largely right, but people can still get pretty rude if you're talking to the middle class/boomers. My grandma openly believes that homeless people do have homes, but are just running a scam on "normal" people to get your money; I think some people just can't admit that this is a country in decline that will leave you to die if you're not profitable now.

      I think non-american countries, even the libshit ones, are generally better at understanding certain things to be systematic issues, because we weren't literally built on that whole rugged individual every man for himself bullshit like the USA was. Other western neoliberal countries may not have society and community anymore, but, culturally, we seem to remember that we used to.

    • cresspacito [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Ehh depends on your circle but it's definitely far less of an issue

    • dave297 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      that's not true there's a lot of anti-homeless rhetoric in the UK and it's pretty much the same as what they say in America

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Sounds like a better society than USA / Canada, even if it's mostly the same