{"id":4765,"date":"2013-12-24T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=4765"},"modified":"2013-12-24T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:30:48","slug":"wsj-op-ed-laments-the-waning-of-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wsj-op-ed-laments-the-waning-of-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Op-Ed laments the waning of white supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"white<\/a>Alternet author Adam Peck does a good job of showing the humour in Joseph Epstein’s<\/a> massively egotistical and racist WSJ Op-Ed<\/a> in which Epstein proposes, “we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs,” and goes on to say,<\/p>\n

There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a stand-still. But one op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal knows what the real problem is: not enough rich, white men.<\/p>\n

In Saturday\u2019s paper and online, author Joseph Epstein mourns the collapse of what he describes as the \u201cgenuine ruling class, drawn from what came to be known as the WASP establishment,\u201d (WASP, the commonly-held acronym for White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Instead, he argues, we are living in a meritocracy, governed not by an elite subset of the uppermost crust of society but rather by a group of people who overcame some kind of adversity and achieved success thanks to their own merits, not based on what family they were born into. This, according to Epstein, is a tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alternet author Adam Peck does a good job of showing the humour in Joseph Epstein’s massively egotistical and racist WSJ Op-Ed in which Epstein proposes, “we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs,” and goes on to say, There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions … <\/p>\n

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