Friday 14 February 2014

Yes, Zoe, It’s All A Big Plot Against ‘The Poor’…

A surprising thing to see in the 'Guardian'?
The extent of in-car, child-centric smoking is unknown. Its impact is unknown, there being no realistic way of determining whether a child got a particular condition from a house or a car. This is the definitive modern non-issue, the phenomenon that sounds so bad we needn't trouble ourselves with how widespread it is.
Zoe Williams, there, who seems to want to outdo her last disastrous ‘it’s all an attack on the poor really!’ column:
Progressive politicians must take it as a principle that parents love their children with the same intensity regardless of income bracket, and they must make this principle the foundation of their political activity. They are trapped time and again, by the apparently innocuous language of risk management, into positions that, designed to demonise behaviour, actually demonise a class.
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What?

I mean, seriously..?
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5 comments:

  1. Furor Teutonicus14 February 2014 at 13:12

    XX there being no realistic way of determining whether a child got a particular condition from a house or a car. XX

    And THERE lies the slippery slope...

    You see what it has done there?

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  2. Anonymous14 February 2014 at 15:04

    It never stops there, as the old saying goes.

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  3. Mr. Morden14 February 2014 at 18:19

    I, along with many here and elsewhere, saw this coming. I just did not think it would be so soon.

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  4. JuliaM15 February 2014 at 06:29

    "It never stops there, as the old saying goes."

    Indeed!

    " I just did not think it would be so soon."

    And the pace is accelerating.

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  5. Anonymous15 February 2014 at 13:56

    I vaguely recall a study some years ago (now unable to find it) on this subject when it was first mooted. Samples of the air inside a car with one person smoking (windows open; windows closed; air conditioning on; air condition off) were compared with the air quality outside a school gate when children were being dropped off/collected. The air outside the school gates was found to be many times more harmful to children's lungs. So, instead of stopping smoking in cars carrying children, why not stop children going to school? On the other hand, perhaps the children in cars don't really want to stop smoking? It probably calms them down in preparing for the day of bullying and political dogma.
    Penseivat

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