A research project found that writers at the New Yorker magazine are even less diverse than they were 50 years ago. The editor of the digital edition defended the magazine by saying that his section is becoming more diverse. Problem is, when journalists talk about diversity, they never talk about class. A newsroom that really looks like America includes people who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, not just people who check off certain boxes.
Diversity Does Not Include Class
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Class is a uniting concept. Marx knew it. The terminally avaricious ruling elite knows it – that’s why there is total silence about it among the 0.001%’s vast propaganda networks. (Note, there once was mention of “the middle class” but, of course, that has been neatly, if mass murderously, destroyed by the Reagan-Thatcher, neo-liberal, “economic austerity” holocaust.)
I note in your example, as in reality, everyone is also very young. I mean, I’ve got to be fair about it, if there’s one thing a 26-year-old has on me, it’s his/her/their lifetime of experience. Sure can’t trick a 26-year-old.
Always the Chattering Class.
Always.