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What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2025
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You're merely a conspicuously belligerent example of the problem.
I'm not the one writing opinion pieces in a national newspaper that in the headline generalise the entire left movement, and sums up it will achieve very little.
If you can't see how that's divisive and puts people off giving up their time to read then I don't know what else to say.
No. It says a wealth tax will achieve little. Not that the left will achieve little. Please read... at all. The author is leftwing and obviously does not believe that the characterisation is insulting, or he would be insulting himself!
You are being over-sensitive by letting a generalisation upset you. And, yes, it is upsetting you, because your entire reaction to this has been to hurl insults and imagine ways to be offended. I am doing you a favour by assuming this is not how you behave when you're not upset.
You can argue what you perceive the title to say all you want but I think the downvotes speak for themselves. Both to the post and your comments (and I haven't downvoted your comments, only the post).
Without knowing the ins and outs of every author's politics it's impossible to judge their headline in the context that you're trying to give. Are you perhaps Aditya? Is that why you're defending this piece so much within the comments?
When you result to personal attacks that a headline is somehow upsetting me because I'm being oversensitive it's perhaps time to do some reflection on the point you're actually trying to get across. I've had a lovely day in the snow and just got home from a walk, I'm not upset.
This is just bad journalism that is being rejected by the community, a generally very left wing community.