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Critics Say Calling Landlords 'Leeches' Insults Real Leeches

Original: Only problems to this; is the fact it is vastly unfair to real Leeches. # anarchism # socialism # housing

A quip circulating in leftist housing debates argues that describing landlords as leeches is unfair — to actual leeches. The joke, tagged with anarchism, socialism and housing, reflects ongoing online criticism of landlords amid rent rises and the housing affordability crisis, where parasitic metaphors remain a common way to attack profiteering from property.

Why now: Housing costs and anger at landlords keep the landlord-as-parasite framing in circulation on the political left.

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