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Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering (montreal.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] Grimy 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (19 children)

They are synonyms. Please don't make things up.

Edit: to all the knee-jerk downvoting. This is literally a quote from an article the user himself supplied as proof that there is a difference.

Unhoused is probably the most popular alternative to the word “homeless.” It’s undoubtedly the one I see most often recommended by advocates. But it doesn’t have a meaningful difference in connotation from the more common term, “homeless.”

It's literally just a pc synonym of homeless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

@Grimy Believe it or not, different dialects may have different meanings for the same words.

[–] Grimy 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Yes, but academically and more broadly in society, homeless means unhoused (by broadly in society, I mean in the common language like how third world is a synonyms for developing country even though academically it means something else.)

Important to note that he said in the US, not his hometown dialect or something. It's a blanket statement that is completely wrong no matter how you look at it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

@Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

Things aren't true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

Essentialism isn't merely poor forensics. It's very literally gotten millions of people killed.

We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

I don't believe you actually KNOW the facts.

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