Did you guess that (at least the US edition of ) Good Housekeeping magazine now believes in Critical Theory?
I did.
From this week's edition.
"Diet culture has long been institutionalized and is part of an oppressive system that’s intrinsically tied in with racism and patriarchy. “Whenever we create standards about how we all should live, these norms always benefit those individuals who are already in power,” says Sabrina Strings, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia."
Good Housekeeping was never just about housekeeping but always kept au courant with up-to-date political ideas. In 1921 Vice-President Calvin Coolidge spoke to the magazine about restricting immigration to white people and said:
“There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides.”
In a century, if it survives which I suppose is not very likely (who reads it now?) I wonder what political ideas the magazine will express.
Where did southern Italians fit in? At the end of the 19th century, Sicilians were referred to as “white niggers”. (Marc C.)
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