{"id":32656,"date":"2015-09-23T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32656"},"modified":"2015-09-12T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T00:13:53","slug":"qotd-the-platonic-ideal-of-a-guardian-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/qotd-the-platonic-ideal-of-a-guardian-column\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Platonic Ideal of a <em>Guardian<\/em> column"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <em>Guardian<\/em>\u2019s Aisha Mirza bemoans the \u201cpsychic burden\u201d of living among white people, which is worse than being mugged.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about it, the more this may exemplify a near-perfect <em>Guardian<\/em> article, the ideal to which all other <em>Guardian<\/em> columnists should aspire. It\u2019s haughty and obnoxious, is ignorant of relevant subject matter, is frequently question-begging, and its imagined piety is premised on a rather obvious double standard. Specifically, Ms Mirza\u2019s belief that people who leave London do so, secretly, because they don\u2019t feel comfortable living among people with skin of a darker hue, which is racist and therefore bad, and her own simultaneous preference not to live among people whose skin is paler than hers, which is somehow not racist at all, and is in fact aired as the last word in righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2015\/09\/reheated-45.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reheated (45)&#8221;, <em>davidthompson<\/em><\/a>, 2015-09-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian\u2019s Aisha Mirza bemoans the \u201cpsychic burden\u201d of living among white people, which is worse than being mugged. The more I think about it, the more this may exemplify a near-perfect Guardian article, the ideal to which all other Guardian columnists should aspire. It\u2019s haughty and obnoxious, is ignorant of relevant subject matter, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28,53,41],"tags":[350,213,99,907],"class_list":["post-32656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-london","tag-newspapers","tag-racism","tag-snobbery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32663,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions\/32663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}