Matthew Yglesias shows his true colors

[marmar]

from Americablog:



Matt Yglesias resigns from the presumed-progressive community — with prejudice
4/27/2013 10:00am by Gaius Publius


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Matt Yglesias (my emphasis):

Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That’s OK

It’s very plausible that one reason American workplaces have gotten safer over the decades is that we now tend to outsource a lot of factory-explosion-risk to places like Bangladesh where 87 people just died in a building collapse. This kind of consideration leads Erik Loomis to the conclusion that we need a unified global standard for safety …

I think that’s wrong. … The reason is that while having a safe job is good, money is also good (and) there are very good reasons for Bangladeshi people to make different choices in this regard than Americans.

–Matthew Yglesias, Slate.com

Thus speaks a man with enough money to be able to choose a safe job. More to the point, thus speaks a man whose comfortable life is financed by people whose forced risk of death he exploits to his professional benefit.

If Matthew Yglesias were ever a liberal or a progressive — hint: despite his bio, no, he never was one — he has in this essay ripped the last shred of the last mask from his last face. The faux-progressive community (the world of presumed-progressives) has permanently lost one of its own. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://americablog.com/2013/04/matt-yglesias-resigns-from-the-presumed-progressive-community-with-prejudice.html

[sabrina 1]

1. I have always wondered how he fooled so many progressives for so long. He was always

a Third Wayer to me and imo was always pretty obvious. Never bothered reading anything he wrote after seeing his first few blog posts.

Glad to see him finally expose himself completely.

[sabrina 1]

2. Meant to add, we always wondered who was financing and pushing him also. I was around

when he was just a 'blogger' posting on Liberal sites and he was one of the least interesting of many bloggers posting at the time. But it seemed he was getting help from somewhere to get his boring posts spread all over the place. He's not the only one who flooded liberal blogs around that time. There are a few others who must have come from the same Third Way Think Tank, their job being to influence liberals. I guess they failed because no matter how you disguise yourself, if you're a fox in a hen house, your true colors do show, you can't hide them and he never was very good at it imo.

[alarimer]

3. He's an idiot.

He writes these very brief posts that obviously involve no thought whatsoever, pretending to offer a contrarian viewpoint, but i's just idiotic.

[MisterP]

4. "it's white privilege to worry about your sweatshop falling in,

since exploitation saves you from starvation"

any Angelenos may be reminded of Damien Goodmon, a Black guy hired by the Whitest neighborhood to say that light rail was a plot to kill off Black kids