the guardian
sucks. bigly.
I don't agree politically with any bourgeois publication. I assess things in the world based on what happened, not how I feel about the parties involved. I think the riddler is a jerk, but if his position in an argument was righteous, I would stick up for the principle, irrespective of the parties involved. One need not like the person embodying it, to stick up for a principle. It's actually really easy, much easier than prevaricating, and formulating a post hoc rationale based on whether I like a person or not.
I've got lots of friends with wack ass ideas, and know plenty of jerkoffs, who are more "right" on a number of political issues than people I personally like a lot more.
censorship (explicit and implicit) to prevent criticism of Israel is a real thing, a real problem, one that I condemn unequivocally. is that what happened to Nathan? no.
I did a long twitch stream about it the other day, but just thought I'd clarify in writing since some dorks on Twitter seem a little confused.
@Aimee
ReplyDeleteHave you read this article on the New York Times’ bizarre campaign against Britain ? After the Brexit, UK was insistently portrayed as a hellish country populated by uneducated racists
https://unherd.com/2020/01/what-has-the-new-york-times-got-against-britain/
In March 2019 an all-but-unknown novelist called Sam Byers was drafted in to write a piece titled “Britain is Drowning itself in Nostalgia”. In the article the author claimed that “With nothing meaningful to say about our future, we’ve retreated into falsehoods of the past, painting over the absence of certainty at our core with a whitewash of poisonous nostalgia”. He described the UK as “poisoned” with “colonial arrogance” and suffused with “dreamy jingoism”. On and on this fiction writer went.
In May the paper was back at it, plucking another person from obscurity to do the necessary drive-by on England. This time it was an unknown academic called Maya Goodfellow, who was drafted in to write a piece headlined “A new face won’t cover the British government’s racist heart”.
This headline came about because Ms Goodfellow’s piece claimed that although Sajid Javid had just been appointed to the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and although he was undeniably of ethnic minority background, this was in fact just the sort of ruse that any racist country would come up with to try to cover its tracks. Ms Goodfellow had no evidence for this, but the NYT’s trawl of obscure figures to make specific slanders against the UK continued.
Haven't read, will check it out though!
DeleteAimee, it would be wonderful if you posted a video of poo exiting your buttocks on this site. Enjoying the content so far.
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