General Discussion

unvirtuous. Undesirable traits that are also associated with crime and sin.

Poor people must be bad people gives rise to poor people must be sinners or thugs.

If that's true, then not being poor means all things good. All things virtuous. All things "godly".

Poor people are beyond redemption. They are poor because they are bad people who don't want to work or save or be good.

Why should you feel for people like that?

Why should they get "your" money?

Why should your taxes go to people like that?

Why should you even feel for sorry for them?

Why should you concern yourself with them?

(Conservatives have said that free school lunches only encourage the poor to be poor (same with any aid) - can't pay, children can't eat. Blame your parents for being poor/bad/lazy/criminals, not the school, not the community, not the "good" people. We gave them a cheese sandwich! Pay your lunch bill poor people! Or we will shame your children.)

Prosperity Gospel.

God wants you to be rich.

If God wants you to be rich, then he wants the poor to be poor because they are not Godly people.

There's also Ayn Rand and her philosophy that conservatives and libertarians embraced all mingled throughout.

Empathy as an evil is not a new concept even if not said so directly before.