Retro Science Jargon: Negroes, Retards, Morons, Feeble-Minded Idiots and Perverts | Bering in Mind, 
From blogs.scientificamerican.com -January 31, 2013  
 Back when I was a graduate student in Louisiana studying chimpanzees, I came across a chapter from an old book called The Speech of Monkeys. First ...

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Let’s Talk About Poor Shaming, And Why It Isn’t Okay
From www.addictinginfo.org - December 21, 2014 
Poor shaming is a problem in America, and many of the myths about the abilities of impoverished people to do better contribute to the growing problem of classism.

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The Nature of Homelessness - Historical Attitudes Toward the Homeless
From: Library Index
Others, however, were viewed as morally suspect--lazy, criminal, ...that for most people homelessness was the consequence of weakness or flawed character.

The Compassion Gap
From www.nytimes.com - March 1, 2014 
by Nicholas Kristof
There is an income gap in America, but just as important is a compassion gap. Plenty of successful people see a picture of a needy child and their first impulse is not to help but to reproach.

To break cycles of poverty, we have the tools to improve high school graduation rates, reduce teen pregnancies and increase employment. What we lack is the will to do so.

There may be neurological biases at work. A professor at Princeton found that our brains sometimes process images of people who are poor or homeless as if they were not humans but things.
Likewise, psychology experiments suggest that affluence may erode compassion. 

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