Attempts to popularize this latest imaginary phobia track back to — you guessed it — the 1970s…
“Social condition provides protection from being subjected to negative stereotyping because of being poor, or being on social assistance. Canadians should be protected from discriminatory conduct based on stereotypes that people with low incomes are untrustworthy, a poor risk, poor tenants, sexually and socially irresponsible, poor parents and worse.”
