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    Default Could someone please explain to me...

    So I've noticed on the news the last couple of days that local authorities and churches are opening warming facilities ahead of the cold snap.

    Warming facilities for the unhoused.

    So, could someone please explain to me how the term "unhoused" is any better, any more sympathetic, any less stigmatizing than "homeless?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    So I've noticed on the news the last couple of days that local authorities and churches are opening warming facilities ahead of the cold snap.

    Warming facilities for the unhoused.

    So, could someone please explain to me how the term "unhoused" is any better, any more sympathetic, any less stigmatizing than "homeless?"
    The stupidity of thinking if you soften the impact of the words, it will somehow magically soften the impact of the actual situation.

    I personally don't have that problem
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gunny View Post
    The stupidity of thinking if you soften the impact of the words, it will somehow magically soften the impact of the actual situation.

    I personally don't have that problem

    That make two of us.


    My wife tells me I'm an asshole. I tell her that I'm okay with that...


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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    That make two of us.


    My wife tells me I'm an asshole. I tell her that I'm okay with that...


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    Quote Originally Posted by hjmick View Post
    That make two of us.


    My wife tells me I'm an asshole. I tell her that I'm okay with that...
    For future reference just as the formerly homeless are now unhoused you will now be known as sympathy challenged rather than A*hole.

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