{"id":47635,"date":"2022-06-16T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47635"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:42:36","slug":"qotd-the-guardian-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/06\/16\/qotd-the-guardian-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The <em>Guardian<\/em> and &#8220;capitalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The displacement of responsibility is a <em>Guardian<\/em> staple, with <em>society<\/em> or capitalism (or &#8220;late capitalism&#8221;, or &#8220;neoliberalism&#8221; or whatever) being blamed for the columnist&#8217;s own hang-ups and incontinence. Tanya Gold did it two or three times during her time at the paper, as did Madeleine Bunting, Oliver James, VJD Smith and God knows how many others. Diane Abbott once claimed that capitalism is the reason she got fat, and still is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s practically a rule. If a <em>Guardian<\/em> contributor drinks too much, eats too much, buys too many shoes &#8230; well, obviously, they&#8217;re the victim because consumerist peer pressure somehow <em>made<\/em> them do it against their will, such as it is. The premise is generally &#8220;capitalism made me fat&#8221;, followed by &#8220;capitalism made me anxious about being fat&#8221;, followed by &#8220;tax such-and-such to buggery, or ban it altogether, and then I&#8217;ll be thin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2019\/04\/reheated-55.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e20240a476b6cb200d#comment-6a00d83451675669e20240a476b6cb200d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comments<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2019\/04\/reheated-55.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reheated (55)&#8221;, <em>DavidThompson.com<\/em><\/a>, 2019-04-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The displacement of responsibility is a Guardian staple, with society or capitalism (or &#8220;late capitalism&#8221;, or &#8220;neoliberalism&#8221; or whatever) being blamed for the columnist&#8217;s own hang-ups and incontinence. Tanya Gold did it two or three times during her time at the paper, as did Madeleine Bunting, Oliver James, VJD Smith and God knows how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[4,25,57,28,41],"tags":[213,139],"class_list":["post-47635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-economics","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-newspapers","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-coj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47635","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=47635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74342,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47635\/revisions\/74342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}