Columns, Diary of a Domestic Extremist, Politics - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 0:30 - 2 Comments

Morrissey, the privileged and the ‘Subspecies’ of Neoliberalism

Morrissey's outburst in Saturday's Guardian, calling the Chinese a "subspecies", provoked acres of outraged newsprint. And yet, as Mikhail Goldman argues in this week's diary, whilst many of us in countries like the UK may not consciously agree with the idea, we certainly end up benefiting from the very treatment of the Chinese and other Asians, Africans, Latin Americans and East Europeans as "subspecies". Our hypocritical outrage, Goldman points out, is no less outrageous.