What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.
Christopher Hitchens Quotes
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
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| Birth: | 13th April, 1949 |
| Death: | 15th December, 2011 |
| Nationality: | American, British |
| Profession: | Author, Critic, Essayist, Journalist, Screenwriter |
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Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was a british- American author, essayist, literary critic, screenwriter and journalist. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate and Vanity Fair. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of over thirty books, including five collections of essays, on a range of subjects, including politics, literature and religion.
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