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If Guardian has been compromised by anything it's surely by editors that are trying to turn in to a social justice organisation. Number of pages mentioning "wh
by stef25 7y ago
If Guardian has been compromised by anything it's surely by editors that are trying to turn in to a social justice organisation.
Number of pages mentioning "white men" as indexed by Google:
Guardian: 7840 / 3,680,000 (0.21%)
BBC: 623 / 4,720,000 (0.01%)
Some headlines of the Guardian that come to mind are "All landlords are scum" and "Maybe white men should just disappear for a while". In the case of the latter it was an interview with the USA's female national soccer captain and that line was something she just joked at the very end and the editor decided to make that the title of the article (if I'd have been her I'd have been furious).
Another rage inducing article was one that nailed David Attenborough to the cross for daring to suggest climate change activism could benefit from separating it from left/right politics.
This is all not directly related to politics, but it's pretty telling. The website / usability is great but the spin they (are pressured to?) put on the content is nauseating.
- jcranberry 7y ago'White men' is just a demographic category. 4.37% (1790/41,000) of fivethirtyeight sites indexed by google mention white men. If anything it's just indicative of The Guardian using less precise terminology than the BBC, which I'm sure discusses the demographic or subdemographics of white, male British people every now and then. It seems that you are saying that they use sensationalized titles and publish contentious opinion pieces. I hate these tendencies on news orgs as well. But the Guardian isn't nearly as bad as HuffPost or Vox and the like in this regard.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThere are severe problems with how we handle land ownership so I don't find that hyperbole rage inducing / infuriating. The idea of white men "disappearing for a while" is new to me and it sounds like an amazing idea. How better to shake up entrenched power structures? Spread around the leadership roles and experience, and then once that settles combine everyone back and you can end up with a much better mix at all levels.
- whenchamenia 7y agoYour racism is showing.
- Dylan16807 7y agoPower structures are objectively unbalanced. Wanting to shake them up is not a slight against any particular race.
- robocat 7y agoNumber of results for "flounder" site:theguardian.com is 2,500, however "flounder" site:bbc.com returns just 81. Clearly flounder is a hot social justice topic (if I follow your logic). PS: flounder was just the first nonsense word I tried.