The Bluestocking, XXXIV: Donald's daughter, wartime spies and unfunny jokes
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It's too hot and I need a holiday. So I'm having one. This is a bumper newsletter to make up for that, complete with a bit where I got carried away analysing Facebook. See you in a few weeks! *** Ivanka and Jared There is something Murdochian in the way that Kushner seems to be relishing his newfound role as a billionaire outsider, tweaking the more delicate sensibilities that he was once immersed in. Responding to Trump’s left-wing critics, especially in the media, Kushner makes familiar arguments about the reverse intolerance of liberalism, warning, in his Observer letter, about the dangers of political correctness run amok: “If even the slightest infraction against what the speech police have deemed correct speech is instantly shouted down with taunts of ‘racist’ then what is left to condemn the actual racists? What do we call the people who won’t hire minorities or beat others up for their religion?”
The Bluestocking, XXXIV: Donald's daughter, wartime spies and unfunny jokes
The Bluestocking, XXXIV: Donald's daughter…
The Bluestocking, XXXIV: Donald's daughter, wartime spies and unfunny jokes
It's too hot and I need a holiday. So I'm having one. This is a bumper newsletter to make up for that, complete with a bit where I got carried away analysing Facebook. See you in a few weeks! *** Ivanka and Jared There is something Murdochian in the way that Kushner seems to be relishing his newfound role as a billionaire outsider, tweaking the more delicate sensibilities that he was once immersed in. Responding to Trump’s left-wing critics, especially in the media, Kushner makes familiar arguments about the reverse intolerance of liberalism, warning, in his Observer letter, about the dangers of political correctness run amok: “If even the slightest infraction against what the speech police have deemed correct speech is instantly shouted down with taunts of ‘racist’ then what is left to condemn the actual racists? What do we call the people who won’t hire minorities or beat others up for their religion?”