The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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Americans give themselves permission to hate only one group overtly: homeless people. All the suppressed private bigotry that they're afraid to express publicly toward members of ethnic and religious groups spills onto people without money.
You would not call someone a [N-word]-lover but you cheerfully use a term that tells a double lie: it not only pretends there's something wrong with being poor, it pretends there's even something wrong with defending poor people. All the time-tested religious and philosophical systems treat empathy for the poor as a duty, not a sin. It's only modern-day middle-class Americans who try to prop up their own teetering social status by pretending visibly poor people are subhuman.
The reasons given for reviling and abusing the homeless always have to do with the pretense that homelessness is a voluntary status. That's only possible to believe through faith-based denial of basic economic facts. Our economy is a game of musical chairs. Somebody will be left without a chair. If that somebody wasn't as greedy or fast as the others who got chairs, it doesn't mean the one without a chair is a bad person. The haters' further pretense, then, is that poverty may not be a crime but that there's something voluntary in the acts compelled by poverty -- such as spending time doing nothing on public property or in shop doorways. Which is complete crap.
Very poor people have survived in the same ways during every period of extreme inequality. We are in such a period now. The big bad recession is coming to get members of the middle class whether they admit it or not. Blaming homeless destitute people for living their lives in public spaces is a form of hysterical economic denial -- denial that extreme poverty is a function of our economy, not of individual character defects -- denial that Third World street scenes are an inevitable product of Third World levels of inequality. Homeless-hatred is a pathology most prevalent among people who are scared about their own economic futures, just as gay-bashing is most prevalent among people who are secretly afraid of sexual ambivalence. It is a pathology and should be recognized as such.
Well put.
way to miss the point of colberts bit. also theres a difference between discriminating against people without money and drug dealers