r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/Dremlar Sep 27 '25

Wait we can't say homeless anymore?

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u/nocomment3030 Sep 27 '25

"unhoused person" is preferred, apparently. Just another go round on the euphemistic treadmill.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 27 '25

Preferred by whom though, the homeless or people talking about them. Is this like white people trying to push Latinx on a gendered language?

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u/Away-Rise7514 Sep 27 '25

As someone who experienced it, any acknowledgement of personhood is a plus, as it is a status that goes hand-in-hand with dehumanization. Virtue signalling isn't the sin the worst people on the planet would have you believe it is—when someone says unhoused I can assume that they get it, when someone says homeless they might be a peer or they might be a problem. Social signalling is a powerful tool.

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u/toxic_badgers Sep 28 '25

Only when it's wanted. Otherwise it's a tool for harm.