TL;DR
The New Times Churnalism Story in Brief
Initially I just thought Peg Tyre, the writer of the New York Times story, should have had the simple courtesy to acknowledge the use of my earlier work.
However the story over the acknowledgement was, I believe, eclipsed by Tyre’s response and justification over
“hot jeeps, informal settlements & grave personal risks”
while visiting a few American owned private schools in Kenya, Uganda & Liberia.
Surely, the lens through which she is reviewing herself in this crusade could only be owned by a WASP unaware of their own white woman privilege?
That’s the story here, IMO
Further, my objection has caused an amusing paralysis in the “anti-Bridge” camp as well as those still enthralled (enslaved?) by the power of old media to set the agenda.
It seems that they are conflicted in the way that a family might be when they discover that a respected, popular & friendly uncle has been abusing a niece.
They want to silence the victim because surely the uncle deserves latitude because he’s one of the good guys.
It’s shit like this that fails the left.
Just because I believe Bridge International Academies are wrong doesn’t necessarily mean that I believe anyone else is right. I refuse to deal in binaries. This is why I have no friends and live in a basement in SE London 😉
(if you missed it the longer read is here)
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