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Originally Posted by kennyc
Exactly. As someone said in that other thread, it's disrespectful of the truly homeless in the same manner as the quote above is.
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How is the above quote disrespectful of the truly homeless? I think Melville was pointing out something that needed to be said. Even today, we have radio and TV hosts who seem to make a very comfortable living by, among other things, criticizing the have-nots. The very first time I heard Rush Limbaugh, he was criticizing the homeless by saying most of them choose to be that way; although why the young children of out-of-work parents, who make up a sizable proportion of the homeless, should be thought to have chosen to be that way is beyond me. But I guess Limbaugh should be given credit for being one of the first to fearlessly take on the vast and powerful homeless lobby.