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Wisconsin official blames homelessness on "sin," then votes against aid for the poor (www.friendlyatheist.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

An auntie was recently telling me Sai Baba said something to the effect of “poor people are starving because they wasted food in a past life”. Vilifying poor people to feel better about not doing anything to actually help is a tale as old as time.