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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elites-pious-posturing-is-no-help-to-the-poor-pgmpkp0nt
Wealth should come with humility and a sense of responsibility, not with smugness and complacency. The richest children in the country should not be taught that they are ethical heroes and that the schools educating them are bastions of equality. It reinforces one of the most pernicious trends of our time: the very wealthy have come to believe not only in their material but also their moral superiority.
Witness the panels on diversity and inclusion at Davos; or the fact that Yale’s infamous insider Skull and Bones society now preens itself over its diversity; or, most infamously, Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of the “deplorables”. The idea is that superior moral insight — especially in matters of gender and race — is a function of elite status, while poverty implies moral degeneracy.
Even by these standards, British private schools seem triumphalist. A member of staff at Winchester College boasts that “progressive allies not only believe in equality but actively advocate for it, as a driving force to protect the community and fight against injustices”. Exactly how educating the children of millionaires contributes to the “fight against injustice” is not explained.
https://archive.ph/nCGHL
Wealth should come with humility and a sense of responsibility, not with smugness and complacency. The richest children in the country should not be taught that they are ethical heroes and that the schools educating them are bastions of equality. It reinforces one of the most pernicious trends of our time: the very wealthy have come to believe not only in their material but also their moral superiority.
Witness the panels on diversity and inclusion at Davos; or the fact that Yale’s infamous insider Skull and Bones society now preens itself over its diversity; or, most infamously, Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of the “deplorables”. The idea is that superior moral insight — especially in matters of gender and race — is a function of elite status, while poverty implies moral degeneracy.
Even by these standards, British private schools seem triumphalist. A member of staff at Winchester College boasts that “progressive allies not only believe in equality but actively advocate for it, as a driving force to protect the community and fight against injustices”. Exactly how educating the children of millionaires contributes to the “fight against injustice” is not explained.
https://archive.ph/nCGHL