I agree with Heft. I think it clearly borrows from ethnic cleansing. While it might sound euphemistic, it implies a callousness on the agents of the cleansing, i.e. that they consider poor people to be dirty.
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I agree with Heft. I think it clearly borrows from ethnic cleansing. While it might sound euphemistic, it implies a callousness on the agents of the cleansing, i.e. that they consider poor people to be dirty.