12-21-2022, 04:34 AM
(12-21-2022, 03:02 AM)DJC link Wrote:Sorry LP, but Bill isn't a WASP, even if you include Northern Europeans within the artificial Anglo-Saxon construct. Bill's Scottish ancestors would be spinning in their graves at being lumped in with Sassenachs! Although he attended a Congregational church as a child, Bill, Melinda and their children regularly attend/ed a Catholic church. He is white, but not really from a US political elite family so the WASP label doesn't apply.
Apart from when it clashes with his interests and objectives, Bill is as woke as you can get and is criticised by groups like Parents Defending Education and the Murdoch media for bankrolling the woke education agenda.
If nothing else, a Markle / Gates comparison provides an elegant snapshot into how power and privilege operate in contemporary society, if only in relative terms - who has it and who doesn't, who is able to obtain it and who isn't, what benefits it provides etc. One can quibble about whether or not Gates is "genuine" establishment, but the advantages afforded to him by his power and privilege completely dwarf Markle's.

