Shouldn't have to behave civilly. I believe they are living a vicarious, anti-capitalist fantasy, making the homeless into romantic rebels. Mac Donald is a bit of a rebel herself, though it is not capitalism she rebels against but mushy thinking. Re-exposure to academia turned her into a crusader against multiculturalism and other fashionable social theories. Women claiming they can only read women.
Blacks can only read work by black authors.
It made me crazy. She began criticizing multiculturalism in articles that appeared in magazines like the New Republic, Partisan Review and the New Criterion. The chef comes by to announce that we will be having chicken lo mein, and to ask, since neither I nor Mac Donald qualifies as homeless, if we would please pay. There is a great lie going around that poverty is an economic condition rather than a moral one. What's left out is that the vast majority of those living under the poverty line are in single-parent households.