The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Time to move on?

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When it comes to race, the move-on brigade can't dismiss the problems | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Not according to Aditya Chakrabortty, who is keen to hold onto the race card. Let's try not to suspect it's because he has few others in his hand. According to Aditya who, despite having the "wrong colour of skin" has somehow managed to land a job as economics leader writer for the Guardian;

…racism can still be as simple as being pulled over by a policeman for having the wrong colour of skin…

Yes, I suppose it can. It can also be as simple as assuming you were pulled over for having the "wrong" colour of skin. Perhaps it really is time to move on Aditya. But then reading some of your other articles, moving on from outdated dogma is not really your forte, is it?

3 responses to “Time to move on?”

  1. jameshigham Avatar
    jameshigham

    Chakrabortty is a fabulous name though, isn’t it?

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  2. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    Perhaps he’s using the eccentric spelling to distance himself from his more sound near namesake at Liberty, James.

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  3. Trooper Thompson Avatar
    Trooper Thompson

    I think the comment string on that article does a good job in taking apart his simplistic argument. All he’s doing is cherry-picking a sound-bite stat, and wrapping it in emotional leftism. As for his own position, the implication is that he’s worked twice as hard to get it and deserves a pay-rise.
    As for his commie-camping nonsense, I see no parallels between the two, and certainly no grounds for thinking that communism develops naturally in ‘virgin soil’. If he landed on Crusoe’s island with his comrades, no doubt they would attempt to build a communist system, or at least would immediately set up a central committee, to decide who (else) was going to do the work. Me, I’d be off to the other side of the island, where I’d build a fence to keep the bastards out.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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