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The Economist was founded in 1843, and the article goes to great lengths to paint the writers and editors of the magazine throughout its history as not merely w
by haberman 4y ago
The Economist was founded in 1843, and the article goes to great lengths to paint the writers and editors of the magazine throughout its history as not merely wrong on matters of policy, but personally privileged and bigoted.
- yucky 4y agoIt doesn't seem odd to you to bring race into it? It reads like something from Stormfront, with races swapped.
- haberman 4y agoI didn't bring race into it, the article did: > The staff, predominantly white, is recruited overwhelmingly from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a disproportionate number of the most important editors have come from just one Oxford college, Magdalen.
- yucky 4y agoYour quote: "except that these white, entitled, racist Oxford snobs have been ruining the world for 179 years." ...reads a bit different.