I've Never Seen This In An Article

I was reading one of the linked stories over at Hotair, when I noticed this paragraph in a typically worthless, anti-American Washington Post story by Eugene Robinson...

Let me interject that this column will include quite a few Chinese names, which can be hard for English speakers to follow. Please make the effort. Being an informed citizen of the world is increasingly going to require some level of comfort with Chinese nomenclature.

Shall I tear this apart piece by piece? Don't mind if I do! First of all, I've really never seen a serious column writer condescend to his own audience in this way before. Yes, I've seen them make snarky comments about some of their readers, as in, "Gee I hope all the Republicans reading this can understand all the polysyllabic words," or some other garbage, but this is aimed directly at his own readers. As in, "Washington Post readers are so stupid I need to point out that there are names of people from other countries and cultures in this article. Don't be afraid!" Now technically, Washington Post readers, New York Times readers, the LA Times, these people actually can be considered troglodytic knuckle-draggers, mainly because of their weird insistence that reading the right paper, voting for inexperienced shams, believing in things like global warming without even having the most basic scientific understanding (while treating religious people like they're some idiot underclass) makes them smarter, rather than demonstrating that they're smarter by accomplishment. But then again, Eugene Robinson isn't exactly a prize pig of intellect. So where does he get off telling his own readers that they need to smarten up when reading his article? I don't know, but he does seem to have high opinion of his own writing. His line, "which can be hard for English speakers to follow", makes it sound as if he imagines his readers are reciting his columns. Maybe he meant English readers. I honestly can't be certain either way. Also, citizen of the world? Either there's a gas leak at the Washington Post building or he needs a dictionary because I don't think he knows what citizen means. The "world" doesn't guarantee your rights and privileges. Also, citizen is a relative term. A person is a citizen of one country relative to another. If there existed only one country, you wouldn't need the term citizen. Maybe he thinks there are other worlds he can be a citizen of and he just happens to live on this world. Which is why I mention the gas leak. Either that or he just really hates America. I also like it when he tells us to make an effort. OK, Eugene, I'll make the effort, but no promises. I mean, differentiating between the names of different people (which are spelled differently) is kind of difficult, especially when you're the writer. Maybe you're just warning us because you had so much trouble writing this column. It's OK Eugene, tomorrow you can go back to writing about John F. Kerry, who should not be confused with John F. Kennedy. Or John F. Street for that matter. Say, maybe you should include that paragraph in your other articles for your non-English speakers. After all, they might want to be informed citizens of the world too.