Did I miss the refugee children thread?

[Flashman]

All the people I know who house homeless peoples, etc, would certainly fit that category in your opinion.

It's certainly got going to be the right-wing types doing it, until they spot a way to make money out of it,

Are there people who house homeless people at their own expense? Never heard of any but admirable if this is the case.

[DodgyAgent]

To be honest I couldn't be arsed even clicking on the link.

We are both on the block here.

Such moral preening is now widespread. Indeed, the value of the refugees seems to lie in the extent to which, through playing dutiful humanitarian victims, they might help Western politicians assume the role of smiling saviour and in the process repair their flagging moral authority. It’s well known that sections of the hard right have a tendency to dehumanise asylum seekers, treating the complex human beings who cross borders as an amorphous threat. Over the past week we have seen that the other side in this discussion, those who pose as friends of migrants, also play the dehumanisation game. Where the right criminalises migrants, liberals infantilise them, reducing them from moral agents who have made a decision to migrate to childlike victims in need of rescue by virtuous Westerners. The much-shared, wept-over photo of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi spoke to the new Western view of the migrant: as hapless, helpless; pathetic; children requiring our care. The hard right juxtaposes itself to the threatening migrant; the pseudo-humanitarian left presents itself as lifesaver to the childish migrant. Both sides dehumanise them, for self-serving reasons.

[DodgyAgent]

Are there people who house homeless people at their own expense? Never heard of any but admirable if this is the case.

Those that do do not make it public

[SueEllen]

Are there people who house homeless people at their own expense? Never heard of any but admirable if this is the case.

One guy I heard did this but only went public when he housed a couple who stole from him. They were the 5th lot of people he had given a bed to for a few weeks.

[DodgyAgent]

One guy I heard did this but only went public when he housed a couple who stole from him. They were the 5th lot of people he had given a bed to for a few weeks.

I am a bit like that. I do a lot of things for people and make no fuss about it at all. For example I have 60 saddos that I have found work for who I give 80% of my earnings to.

[SueEllen]

I am a bit like that. I do a lot of things for people and make no fuss about it at all. For example I have 60 saddos that I have found work for who I give 80% of my earnings to.

Not the same at all and you know it.

[NotAllThere]

All the people I know who house homeless peoples, etc, would certainly fit that category in your opinion.

It's certainly got going to be the right-wing types doing it, until they spot a way to make money out of it,

Wrong. I'm right-wing and have a refugee living in my home. Sterling chap. If his asylum claim is accepted, I'll give him a job.

But I give him a place to live because I like him and we've become friends. If I make money out of him, that's all good. I don't give him a place to live out of some ideal.

[DodgyAgent]

Wrong. I'm right-wing and have a refugee living in my home. Sterling chap. If his asylum claim is accepted, I'll give him a job.

But I give him a place to live because I like him and we've become friends. If I make money out of him, that's all good. I don't give him a place to live out of some ideal.

in which I apologise for my comment earlier

[d000hg]

Are there people who house homeless people at their own expense? Never heard of any but admirable if this is the case.

Of course there are.

I'd be terrified of it. I reckon quite a few people in my church probably do it irregularly or would do so for the odd night here and there, and I know two or three households who do this quite actively i.e. have a spare room specifically set aside for anyone who needs it, maybe someone they meet at a soup kitchen sort of thing.

[shaunbhoy]

If I make money out of him, that's all good. I don't give him a place to live out of some ideal.

Mercenary Barsteward!!
You ARE Philip Green and I claim my crisp five pound note!!