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The goal of whom? Please don't vaguely hand wave about the .1%. Who specifically with means has had this goal? Because without any kind of evidence or idea of
by googlryas 4y ago
The goal of whom? Please don't vaguely hand wave about the .1%.
Who specifically with means has had this goal? Because without any kind of evidence or idea of who is doing it, it just sounds like a conspiracy theory.
I ask because whenever I see instances of the ultra rich trying to control the narrative, it always comes off as obvious and ham fisted. The obvious rebuttal is "well you don't see when they succeed", but I don't think they would torpedo a cause they believe in in order for other causes to be successful. Unless they are truly playing 4d chess.
- ed25519FUUU 4y agoThe rich and powerful, who are able to make it about race and not about money and power.
- scotty79 4y agoBezos for one. He specifically bought newspaper to massage the image of billionaires like him. I don't think he's beneth that tactic given that Amazon has huge employee rotation by design because they haven't anticipate running out of people.
- kareemsabri 4y agoHow do you know this?
- scotty79 4y agoI know nothing.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoYou can simply read the report
- ironSkillet 4y agoHe bought the newspaper to prove that he could help transform a decaying news business into a digital focused successful one.
- scotty79 4y agoAnd only by sheer accident this newspaper started publishing articles praising billionaires like him and their endeavors (like private space race).
- ironSkillet 4y agoPrivate space enterprise is exciting and legitimate news, is it not?
- scotty79 4y agoOf course!
- rippercushions 4y agoI don't think they were particularly successful in that, there was quite a bit of backlash about billionaires blowing millions of dollars on useless vanity projects so they can fly to space on giant space dicks: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/20/jeff-bezos-rocket-design-an-inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/20/jeff-bezos-r...
- scotty79 4y ago> there was quite a bit of backlash Not from Washington Post though.
- throwaheyy 4y agoRupert Murdoch, for one?
- googlryas 4y agoPossibly I guess, but from my perspective, as someone who reads a wide range of viewpoints, it appears that it's the central and left leaning papers that are the ones pushing the importance of race in America, not the conservative ones like the ones that murdoch owns. The perspective I get from his papers seems more of just generally disliking any black complaint about the society's treatment of them, with the implication that anything wrong with black people is their own fault.
- dislikedtom2 4y ago>always comes off as obvious and ham fisted. Isn't this case only when the thing really is obvious and just because you can spot couple of those "obvious cases" does not mean you have spotted every attempt, only the obvious ones.
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- traverseda 4y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI