Frank wrote on Nov 13
th, 2022 at 2:03pm:
Lost in the Ghetto
Theodore Dalrymple
Summer 2000
Despite official genuflections in the direction of diversity and tolerance,
er ...examples, re poverty eradication and employment programs in the ghettos?
Quote:the sad fact is that the culture of the slums is monolithic and deeply intolerant.
of course, maintained by a vicious Thatcherite "privatisation" ideology.
Quote:Any child who tries to resist the blandishments of that culture can count on no support or defense from teachers or any other adult, who now equate both freedom and democracy with the tyranny of the majority.
A very correct equation.
Quote:Many of my intelligent patients......
Here we go, irrelevant micro observations of aggregate problems resulting from a failure to understand the dysfunctional macro environment in an economy which requires serving by the people, rather than an economy which serve the people.
Quote:from the slums recount how, in school, they expressed a desire to learn, only to suffer mockery, excommunication, and in some instances outright violence from their peers. One intelligent child of 15, who had taken an overdose as a suicidal gesture, said that she was subjected to constant teasing and abuse by her peers. "They say I'm stupid," she told me, "because I'm clever."
GIGO from this doctor who has no understanding of macroeconomics.
Quote:Teachers rarely protect such children or encourage them to resist absorption into the culture that will all too clearly imprison them in the social condition into which they were born: for teachers have themselves generally absorbed uncritically the notion that social justice—meaning little more than an equal distribution of income—is the summum bonum of human existence.
Strawman argument. An
economy that works for all, expressed in concepts such as the
general welfare, collective wellbeing and common prosperity are NOT equivalent to "an equal distribution of income".
That is a vicious and deliberately deceptive lie, which alone entitles me to disregard the remainder of your post...
Quote:Read the whole thing.
It is the same here and in the US.
Indeed the same vicious neoliberal ideology applies here as in the US and the UK.