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That means you want to pervert and distort linguistic rules to to cater to people's arrogance. In normal English, people only say minorities or the poor. Saying a homeless person is a victm encourages narcassism and gives them a cop-out excuse from accountability, and showsvyou don't believe a person's suffering is justified due their own choices. That's why humility is the most important character trait a person can develop.
Calling a homeless person a victim oppresses them because it shows that you believe they cannot overcome, conquer their situation, and be successful without hand outs from anyone else. If you truly encouraged someone's potential to conquer hardship with internal fortitude you hold them accountable, forget about what hapoened and focus on what will be.
No person can have a successful future if they don't earn it thrugh merit, and no person can be successful as long as they are a victim of the past.
Stop feeding the victim mentality that only serves to sabatoge them and start helping to educate a homeless person in what work they have to do and what moves they have to make if they want to become wealthy and finanxially independent one day so their days of being homeless can be nothing but a bad memory and not a circumstance that will always be with them and keeps rhem trapped and pulled down.
Anytime a homeless person becomes a millionaire, they are a great leader that can lead society into the next generation of millionaires.