There's a plague on Western society that comes in the form of feelings. For instance, if I feel that what I'm doing is right and good, then it is. Damn the consequences or outcomes. If it sounds cruel or hateful, then it is. You need not worry about the intent behind the other person's actions or words. If it feels like they're being mean or bigoted, then they are. Full stop.
When I say we need to not pay so much attention to the "marginalized" in our society, I can guarantee you that anyone who reads the headline will immediately be conditioned to believe what I'm saying is racist, hateful, or whatever social sin they can slap on me. The funny thing is, if you were to look at what my intention was, you'd see that, in truth, I'm probably being a lot more kind to the "marginalized" than any bleeding-heart leftist.
Why do I think we should stop focusing so much on the less fortunate?
Because we've fooled ourselves into thinking the way to help them is to lower ourselves instead of trying to help elevate them.
Spencer Pratt recently gave a great example of this in a post he put on X:
It's incredibly obnoxious this political obsession with "the most vulnerable communities". You need to be focused on taxpayers, actually. You can't triage a society like it's an emergency room. Taxpayers prop up everything, and if you disregard them for the "marginalized" class, the productive members of society leave and everything collapses.
Some people are in dire straits through no fault of their own. Many others are there because they suck, and we need to be honest about that. They're either addicts or malcontents or they perpetuate destructive culture. The more you indulge them, the worse their destructive habits get. Hold the door open for opportunities, but if they can't get their shit together, giving them free stuff just further incentivizes bad behavior.
The illegal street vendor thing in LA has become a plague. It's not cute. It's not cultural enrichment. It's 3rd world shit. Get a job in a restaurant. Let the restaurant do al fresco dining, like a civilized society. Can we please stop pretending that street vendors dumping pig fat onto our sidewalks is somehow virtuous?
It's incredibly obnoxious this political obsession with "the most vulnerable communities". You need to be focused on taxpayers, actually. You can't triage a society like it's an emergency room. Taxpayers prop up everything, and if you disregard them for the "marginalized" class, the productive members of society leave and everything collapses. Some people are in dire straits through no fault of their own. Many others are there because they suck, and we need to be honest about that. They're either addicts or malcontents or they perpetuate destructive culture. The more you indulge them, the worse their destructive habits get. Hold the door open for opportunities, but if they can't get their shit together, giving them free stuff just further incentivizes bad behavior. The illegal street vendor thing in LA has become a plague. It's not cute. It's not cultural enrichment. It's 3rd world shit. Get a job in a restaurant. Let the restaurant do al fresco dining, like a civilized society. Can we please stop pretending that street vendors dumping pig fat onto our sidewalks is somehow virtuous?
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) November 6, 2026
He was spot-on with his final word in the entire rant.
"Virtue" has completely lost its meaning in this day. In modern times, it means pretending that something unsanitary, unhealthy, and unsustainable is a moral good because the source of it all is coming from a group of people that fall under one of the myriad of the Left's protected groups. I'd list a handful for you, but what isn't on that list is honestly shorter: white male, with bonus points if you're Christian.
The issue is that this "virtue" only makes everything worse by lowering standards for everyone else in order for the "less fortunate" to feel like folks. Their lowered standards become our common standard, and everything starts to deteriorate as a result. As everything deteriorates, the quality of life doesn't just go down for everyone above this "marginalized community," but it also goes down for the marginalized as well.
If a rising tide lifts all boats, a lowered tide drops all of us a few feet as well.
Then it becomes harder to help the marginalized and less fortunate because the people who had the resources now have fewer, or at the very least, the quality of their resources has lessened.
It's a harsh economic truth that results in a dive in the quality of moral action. It sounds great to say that you've dedicated yourself to helping the less fortunate, but the less fortunate are far better off under people who think "Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous" are something to aspire to, and have always fared worse under moral busybodies who think that to have requires you to also have guilt.
