{"id":29714,"date":"2021-01-17T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2021-01-03T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T22:48:45","slug":"competitive-white-suburban-parents-quite-happy-about-school-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/competitive-white-suburban-parents-quite-happy-about-school-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitive white suburban parents quite happy about school shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the scarcest commodities during coronaplague is honesty. Rich white Americans love to say that they are advocating the lockdown of poor Black Americans and the closure of schools for Black children for the benefit of poor Black Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our Boston-area Deplorables refuses to be cast into this mold. He says that he is happy that Shutdown Karens are denying an education to children of color throughout the U.S. and also denying urban children the opportunity to train athletically. His primary goal right now is getting his white children, currently in high school, into elite universities (both parents are Ivy League grads), and where the New York Times sees deprivation<\/a> (caused by the policies for which the New York Times has advocated) he sees reduced competition. Unlike their urban counterparts, his children have not had any interruption or slowdown in their learning . His children have not had any interruption in their elite athletic training (since dad was an elite college athlete and can train them himself whenever organized sports are canceled; plenty of space in their massive suburban house with fully equipped gym and multi-acre yard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(In fairness to this Deplorable, he was not himself in favor of shutting down any schools. But now that the say-gooders have crippled millions of his children’s competitors, he is not shedding crocodile tears.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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