{"id":72900,"date":"2015-08-22T20:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T04:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72900"},"modified":"2015-08-22T20:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T04:42:02","slug":"why-doesnt-anyone-attack-carlos-slim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72900","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t Anyone Attack Carlos Slim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/nyt-jeff-bezos-boo-rupert-murdoch-boo-carlos-slim-crickets\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* The fact that Slim is not being criticized is akin to the old phrase that the \u2018silence is deafening\u2019. With Slim being essentially the richest man on the planet, and coming from a nation with high levels of poverty, you\u2019d think he would be firmly fixed in the cross hairs of the SJWs of the NY Times as prima facie evidence of crony capitalism at its worst. To have his level of wealth with so much of Mexico impoverished to the point they have been fleeing their country for the past 30 to 40 years is sickening. Too bad the SJWs don\u2019t really have any principles other than attacking Western culture and peoples. In Slim\u2019s case they might actually do some good in attacking this creep. But apparently he doesn\u2019t fit their target profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * The fact that Slim is not being criticized is akin to the old phrase that the \u2018silence is deafening\u2019. 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