Guardian readers - the stereotype
Our stereotype of Guardian readers1 is of well-educated, caring, middle-class people working in education or a caring profession or possibly the arts. They are likely to have a strong morality and unlikely to commit a crime or do anything actively nasty.
The moral elite?
They would like to think of themselves as the moral elite. In fact, most of us can get that slight swell of self-righteous pride by just spreading a copy of the Guardian over a big table with a large cup of Arabica coffee and some French croissants.
But to become a Centre of Moral Excellence (CME) the Guardian and its readers must face up to the fact that they are, in general, extremely lucky to be given so many advantages in an unfair society. In their privileged positions they should do more than bleat about the underprivileged - they should quantify their own privilege and apologise for it every day.
Two Guardian gravy trains.
Two topics of great importance to our steriotype Guardian readership 1is the environment and education. Guardian readers are likely to defend both the green belt and higher education /student grants. They see these as protecting the environment and providing a route upwards for the underclasses.. But it can be seen from the two excerpts from www.faxfn.org that
(Note2: Very roughly, the value of houses in the UK is £2000bn, twice GDP which is about £1000bn. In 2002 house prices went up over 20%, earmarking an amount approximately equal to 40% of GDP for affluent houseowners . Being middle class and with an average age in the fourties, most Guardian readers will have done very well at the expense of the poor and the young )
(Note3: "The fight against university fees isn't a major campaign for equal opportunity - quite the contrary. The poor don't go to university. The children of the middle classes do." - Alison Wolf, see below)
(note 4) Some of them are just over aged fans of moz, who belong to a thicko-sub-culture, truely the worst type, typically from a C2 DE socio-economic background from east Lancashire, their fathers read the daily Mirror, and their sons think they are bettering themselves by reading the guardian ., quite pathetic.
If this gets to you, you should ask yourself why.
Peace I wish you karma !
Our stereotype of Guardian readers1 is of well-educated, caring, middle-class people working in education or a caring profession or possibly the arts. They are likely to have a strong morality and unlikely to commit a crime or do anything actively nasty.
The moral elite?
They would like to think of themselves as the moral elite. In fact, most of us can get that slight swell of self-righteous pride by just spreading a copy of the Guardian over a big table with a large cup of Arabica coffee and some French croissants.
But to become a Centre of Moral Excellence (CME) the Guardian and its readers must face up to the fact that they are, in general, extremely lucky to be given so many advantages in an unfair society. In their privileged positions they should do more than bleat about the underprivileged - they should quantify their own privilege and apologise for it every day.
Two Guardian gravy trains.
Two topics of great importance to our steriotype Guardian readership 1is the environment and education. Guardian readers are likely to defend both the green belt and higher education /student grants. They see these as protecting the environment and providing a route upwards for the underclasses.. But it can be seen from the two excerpts from www.faxfn.org that
- The green belt is a way of increasing the asset value of Guardian readers homes2
- The affluent classes are taking an increasing proportion of higher education 3
(Note2: Very roughly, the value of houses in the UK is £2000bn, twice GDP which is about £1000bn. In 2002 house prices went up over 20%, earmarking an amount approximately equal to 40% of GDP for affluent houseowners . Being middle class and with an average age in the fourties, most Guardian readers will have done very well at the expense of the poor and the young )
(Note3: "The fight against university fees isn't a major campaign for equal opportunity - quite the contrary. The poor don't go to university. The children of the middle classes do." - Alison Wolf, see below)
(note 4) Some of them are just over aged fans of moz, who belong to a thicko-sub-culture, truely the worst type, typically from a C2 DE socio-economic background from east Lancashire, their fathers read the daily Mirror, and their sons think they are bettering themselves by reading the guardian ., quite pathetic.
If this gets to you, you should ask yourself why.
Peace I wish you karma !
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