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?

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    If you've internalized that capitalism is meritocratic and rewards people for their academic skills or entrepreneurial ingenuity, then you'd have to come to the conclusion homeless people are somehow less valuable as people. Liberals and "progressives" often dance around that conclusion because they admit things like systemic racism exist, but they often don't seem to include labor rights or homelessness as part of that. They also often misidentify the most brutal aspects of systemic oppression by blaming things like a lack of positive representations in superhero movies. That's often why you'll see liberals speak in eugenics level terms when talking about southerners.

    It's been said here too that homeless people are one of the most immediately visible aspects of widespread poverty and can't simply be ignored or explained away using academic woke lingo, so liberals just have a mental short-circuit.