11th July 2005, 01:56 PM
Personally I welcome the gradual disappearance of the Guardian-reading, "left-wing" and "alternative" classes on site anyway. Mostly they were made up of rather conventional middle-class people utterly denying their roots and spouting a load of reactionary claptrap. We have a jokey "alternative" guy at my place of work - ageing Goth, wears the black uniform and rails against the iniquities of the capitalist, free-market system. This would be fine from a genuine working-class individual, but considering he went to one of the most prestigious public schools in the region, has bought a house with Daddy's money and pays a nominal mortgage on it shows how deep his "convictions" run - all the way back to a sense of guilt at growing up privileged. Although a slightly extreme example I remember many more people of a similar hypocritical bent.If more people on site are not spouting this b*llsh*t then good.
No offence to Guardian readers btw - a good newspaper, even though it's not my rag of choice.
No offence to Guardian readers btw - a good newspaper, even though it's not my rag of choice.