I've heard both "unhoused" and "experiencing homelessness" for a while now. They're both stupid. "Unhoused" makes me think of "unhorsed" and a knight being knocked off his mount in a joust.
Since unhorsed is a real would and it means unwilling removal from said horse, I'm assuming they picked "unhoused" to try and subconsciously communicate that these are just everyday folks that were magically removed from their house and not the drug-addicted murber hobos that they are.
Precisely. Unhoused is a verb, so the implication is that someone did this to them. They are victims, and you can’t blame victims anymore - not even if they were literally directly responsible for what happened to them.
It’s like when we say someone was suicided. The implication is that they were murdered.
I've heard both "unhoused" and "experiencing homelessness" for a while now. They're both stupid. "Unhoused" makes me think of "unhorsed" and a knight being knocked off his mount in a joust.
Since unhorsed is a real would and it means unwilling removal from said horse, I'm assuming they picked "unhoused" to try and subconsciously communicate that these are just everyday folks that were magically removed from their house and not the drug-addicted murber hobos that they are.
Precisely. Unhoused is a verb, so the implication is that someone did this to them. They are victims, and you can’t blame victims anymore - not even if they were literally directly responsible for what happened to them.
It’s like when we say someone was suicided. The implication is that they were murdered.