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Paternalism is a common attitude among well-meaning social reformers. Stemming from the root pater, or father, paternalism implies a patria...
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I quite like this surprisingly strident conclusion to a New Internationalist article:
I couldn’t care less that the pampered Mrs Windsor has lived to a ripe old age. And I resent having to pay for her and her family who are a bunch of corrupt, outdated, hypocritical parasites who belong to the dustbin of history not in a modern, democratic society. Instead her ‘subjects’ continue to fawn over them, help pay for them, touch their metaphorical forelocks and wave their silly little flags whenever the opportunity arises.
Pass the sick bucket. I’m going to puke.
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