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> But calling it homelessness is pretty insulting to the actual homeless

I'm sure homeless people have more pressing thoughts than what words nerds on the internet use to describe outdoor living

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Not if the nerds on the internet are stirring the societal discourse around you. That affects the unhoused whether they care or not.

So you're protecting people from something that even you admit they don't care about?

You can be affected by something and not care about it. You can be affected by things you don't even know about, like the way regulations shape the houses we can live in.

Even assuming this is true, that doesn't make the article insulting. Myths about how housing does not follow supply and demand affect homelessness even more, but that doesn't make the person spreading these myths morally wrong.

> but that doesn't make the person spreading these myths morally wrong.

That’s a nice out for anyone who gets caught lying. “I didn’t think it was morally wrong to repeat lies.”

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