In this article, Andrew Purkis argues that attacks on charities from the left and right of politics rest on a shared stereotype of charity.
Charity (from the Latin “caritas”) originally meant Christian love of humankind. Love of humankind can motivate anger at suffering, discrimination, injustice and hypocrisy, as Jesus Christ himself showed, as well as kindness and altruism. But over the centuries, the word got used in a narrower sense, to denote compassion and alms from the well-off towards the less well-off: it became top-down, a way for better-off people to get to heaven by being virtuous. Read more on this here.