Sep 11, 2019
Anti-poor shaming at Fox News is nothing new. But in
recent years, with the rise of Trump and his more explicit brand of
white nationalism, their tone on homelessness has grown more
aggressive, exterminationist, and urgent. Tales of feces and
liberal decay––peppered with immigrants, LGBTQ, and racist
subtext––have contributed to a larger US media war on the
houseless.
In
Part II of our two part episode on media incitement against the
homeless, we discuss the ramped up panic at Fox News surrounding
the indigent and its parallels with nazi rhetoric.
We are
joined by Madeline Peltz, researcher and writer at Media
Matters.