The Guardian has been pioneering a new model for funding itself: encouraging readers to become members, voluntarily paying a subscription. As ad revenues plunge, it becomes more necessary than ever. Good journalism costs a lot. Please subscribe. Thank you https://t.co/jgWC0zcMsU
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) July 15, 2020
I like George Monbiot and used to be an avid Guardian reader. But I’m so sick of the shift from class politics to racism and sexism that I will never pay them for anything.
By obsessing over difference, The Guardian has become unbearably racist and sexist. So long as that regime persists we have no hope of reaching a world in which colour and gender are irrelevant, nay invisible, and merit becomes the loadstone of progress.
Just as bad, the rentiers of global capital slide in behind The Guardian’s misguided moral warriors and make it all much worse for the young and working people that the paper purports to represent.
Alas, all The Guardian does these days is prevent the Left from finding its feet to address issues of class disenfranchisement including income, wealth, the environment and geopolitics. I am personally more centrist but recognise that without a strong Left to fight capitalism’s rentiers then we’re all worse off.
Let it die.
