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>They must be happy they managed to get a ‘white man bad’ comment in there.

What a strange way to phrase ‘reported a fact’.

They could report any number of facts if they wanted. They could spend all day writing about what their dog had for lunch today and it would be purely factual. They only include specific facts for a reason. They could probably do an analysis and find that e.g. gay people cause a disproportionate amount of carbon emissions (which they do, since they're far more likely to live in higher-income economies) but never would since that's homophobic.

The Chinese list has more Chinese billionaires than the American list has of American billionaires.

I guess it depends on which facts are truthier.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...

_Openly_ gay people, possibly. Within an economy you could make the opposite point - openly gay people are underrepresented in the economic and political elites.

Prefacing the fact by calling it ‘a growing problem’ isn’t just reporting a fact.

It didn't say that, it said: "A less discussed but faster-growing problem is inequality within countries.". The reports linked in the article show the growing inequality, please feel free to present your sources showing otherwise.

Ah, the mental gymnastics of the privileged to convince the rest that inequality is not a problem

I thought climate change was about the environment. Now it's a social justice tool.

You forgot the part where the privileged are found to be polluting the most, aka TFA.

Could you explain to us what a 'social justice tool' is?

I think it's pretty self explanatory but ok: in this case pushing a political agenda via an environmental concern.

The problem with this is a lot of people don't agree with this political agenda but do understand the real problem of climate change. It would probably serve the environmental cause to not mix the two together.

Now this group of people who are all about environment but also think that inequality is fine (presumably because they are on top of it) will hopefully realize that these issues turn out to be connected in interesting ways ;)

Ok, I couldn't find any time it's been used to mean that.

What political agenda do you think is being pushed here?

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