Some quotes from interviews shown in the Last Week Tonight homelessness episode
Some quotes from interviews shown in the Last Week Tonight homelessness episode
"Every time I have to pick up human shit, my liberalness just got lowered one more notch."
"Is there low income— Are [the homeless] going to be spending money at the sushi place, or, you know, or not?"
"And it's not, I feel so bad saying that, but it's not, it's just not people who are, I guess of the same class as us, which sounds bad, but I don't mean that in a bad way."
"I'm definitely not a racist and I'm not a bigot, but um, I think I hold a little bit of a stigma against people who are different." LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF BEING A BIGOT
:amerikkka: Americans are beyond fucking parody, Jesus Christ.
Also I guess here's a link to the episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE
They were being dunked on, right? Right?
Fortunately yes. But of course, this is John Oliver, so you're not going to get any actual systemic critique or delving into the role of capitalism in this, the problem's apparently NIMBYs not wanting affordable housing in their neighbourhoods. That's where the sushi bit came from.