Critics mocked Sunak for asking a homeless man if he is in business. The critics are wrong.

People should inarguably mock this stupid article, the person who wrote it, and Sunak. Mock the Guardian for running it at all. Hell OP should probably be mocked for seeing it and thinking anyone else needed to.

The criticism was not only fair, it did no go far enough.

It should be deeply concerning there is an entire class of professional who have the job of presenting statistics and totally imaginary scenarios like "yeah this homeless guy was super likely to be in finance" as something you should consider seriously as a reasonable person, while the people making the argument sit in offices paid to obfuscate class interests and kiss the asses of those in power, while they demonstrate how completely disconnected both the political and media class are from reality.

I am so curious about what kind of person reads this and thinks "I will now take this hypothetical with no relationship to the real world and I will absorb it into my thought process henceforth. Others should be aware of this drivel."

I can only assume it's other people from this same kind of detached mid to upper class milieu who live in a weird dream world where it's actually those who assume the homeless are not in finance who are wrong, not the moron aristocrat who clearly asked him about it because that's the field everyone he (Sunak) knows work in, not because he actually thought "I must assume this man could be a rocket scientist and pay him the proper respect."

Op-ed writers are without a doubt the most over paid people on the planet indexed against their level of ignorance on any given subject they write about. These people should not be given attention. Giving them attention teaches them their opinions are valuable and meaningful contributions to society, something for which there is no evidence. Anyone giving them attention should be shamed and shunned from society. I am only half joking and if you work in media or understand how media is produced you understand entirely it's not really a joke, it's a billion dollar industry of one moron telling another moron about an interesting discussion they overheard at a party for morons with money, and money means this moron must be doing something right, after all, how could it be otherwise?

Everyone who read this article lost brain cells. I feel so bad for every one of you who has to live on the same island as these saps who can only afford to live in London writing about the threat of left anti semitism or the public not loving more Thatcherite policies that is the problem in society, not the cynical deployment of false narratives and failed austerity mindset.

The Guardian running this should very reasonably be viewed as assuming their readers are actually ignorant bigots who are economically illiterate. This is a pathetic attempt to side step the reality that your leaders are openly hostile towards human life in their policies and actions, the people who write these articles defending these powerful people and their interests are the bottom feeders suckling at the teat of this arrangement, and they are both pointing at the common working person who knows the average homeless person is not in finance and saying do not believe your own eyes.

I cannot express more emphatically, fuck this article.

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