Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20181213001001/@comment-995426-20181214014416

I mean, I may have heard "mole people" used jokingly once to describe basement dwellers, but homeless people generally already face prejudice for...being homeless, usually for classist reasons relating to poverty, or socially judgmental reasons relating to assumed drug use. Some people live underground in part because, given the right spot, it provides relative shelter, and if the infrastructure they're squatting in is invisible enough from people's lives on the surface, then mole people can be effectively invisible, whether that's a good or bad thing. The term regularly comes into play not because they look like moles, but because their underground-seeking lifestyle draws comparisons to moles and other underground life. As far as I'm aware, real moles themselves don't have a reputation as pests, at least not in cities.