The left should just admit it: victims aren’t always good people | Deborah Orr
by Deborah Orr from on (#2NFCY)
Liberals appear naive when they claim all food bank users are 'deserving'. The real scandal is that this safety net has to exist at all
On the BBC's Question Time this week, a man in the audience claimed that people used food banks because they spent all their money on fags, booze and telly. The rest of the audience was scandalised. The gist of their annoyance was that the claim wasn't true.
You could characterise the man as having a rightwing view, and his critics as having a leftwing view. If the banality didn't make your teeth ache, that is.
People like to moralise. I like doing it myself, as much as I like booze, nicotine and telly. Which is a lot
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