3 ms·
Another perspective: > As a “big S” Socialist [...] I often find myself explaining my preference for the pink paper of liberal capitalism over the Gray Lady of
by mncharity 6y ago
Another perspective:
> As a “big S” Socialist [...] I often find myself explaining my preference for the pink paper of liberal capitalism over the Gray Lady of cultural liberalism. The answer is simple: by literally any measure, the Financial Times is just a better paper. It covers the world as it is—a global battle not of ideas or values, but of economic and political interests. [1]
[1] Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-the-new-york-times.php https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-t...
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoEconomic and political clashes are not reality. Like the great houses of Game of Thrones fighting a huge civil war, while an unstoppable army of wights readies invasion from the north. Perhaps one can throw around accusations of bias in economics and politics easily, but our own world squabbles in internecine insular conflict while Global Warming, Species Depletion, and other major threats loom. If your "side" denies the existence and threat of those and calls those "liberal" issues, then it taints the entire "side" it represents. The denialism of global warming the fundamental argument to "reality has a liberal bias". Until the right accept the basics of rationalism and science, "centrist" media should appear liberally biased to the right wing zealots of our time.
- shard 6y agoWhat are the White Walkers and wights but another nation with a different economic system and political agenda?
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoSigh, they're a force of nature. Winter for a generation? Remember?
- shard 6y agoI don't really consider them a force of nature as they are not a mindless mob, but a military with a general executing strategies. A mindless mob would be much less of a threat.