“Homelessness is not about lack of inexpensive housing. It is about drug addicts that need to wander round and reside in tents on the sidewalk,” stated Fox Information’ Jesse Watters in a latest diatribe.
“You may’t coddle delinquent habits,” he smirked, remarkably unaware of the irony of his argument. “You may’t subsidize delinquent habits. It’s a must to stigmatize it. You may’t have fun folks with purple hair, with nostril rings, 4 children with 4 totally different males who’re dressed like trash, and make them out to be some type of cutting-edge heroes. It’s a must to name them what they’re. These are those who have failed in life, and so they’re on their deathbed.”
Watters’ argument is that homelessness is not a systemic failure, however a mere life-style alternative, as if folks get up one morning and assume, “Ah, what a high-quality day to reside in destitution!” He paints a caricature of the homeless inhabitants with all of the subtlety of a sledgehammer, throwing in stereotypes about purple hair, nostril rings, and sartorial selections for good measure. It is the type of rhetoric that would not appear misplaced in a badly written villain’s monologue in a B-movie, besides it is being aired on nationwide tv.
In Watters’ world, the homeless aren’t victims of circumstance, however architects of their very own downfall, undeserving of empathy or help. It is a narrative that is as handy as it’s merciless, absolving society of any duty to handle the difficulty whereas scapegoating those that are most affected by it.
By peddling this sort of scaremongering, Watters is not simply being cruelly delinquent; he is actively contributing to the issue.
Fox Information host Jesse Watters requires viewers to “stigmatize” unhoused folks:
“It’s a must to name them what they’re: These are those who have failed in life and so they’re on their deathbed.”
pic.twitter.com/AIRs60OT6x— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) November 16, 2023