quote, a lefty outfit fronting for the anti-white, anti-American establishment. There was further evidence of
that this week from the
Washington Free Beacon:
AP, like all major news outlets, has a stylebook telling writers and speakers what words and phrases are approved or not approved. Because the AP is such a big deal in news-gathering, their stylebook is a big influence on everyone else s stylebook.
Back in March AP used the word surge to describe the, well, surge of aliens coming over our southern border illegally. That got them a rap on the knuckles from Hispanic supremacist Julio Ricardo Varela [Tweet him] who published an angry op-ed in the
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Playlist
08m56s The White Guilt Trap. (Don t let your confessional enthusiasm slop over.)
18m24s Winter for RINOs. (We don t want what they re selling.)
The greatest poet of European colonialism was of course Rudyard Kipling. One of his best efforts, first published in 1899, was addressed to the people of the U.S.A., exhorting us to colonize the Philippines, which we had acquired in the Spanish-American War. The title of that poem was The White Man s Burden.
A listener begged to differ.
Mr. Derbyshire: Kipling s The White Man s Burden enumerates all the problems the U.S. would face if it took the Philippines. It is
against the U.S. becoming an empire. Several verses were read in the Senate as arguments against the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. The lefties at Wikipedia agree with you however.