Who cares for Chicago's children?
Mass school closures in the US' third-largest city will disrupt students' lives and put their safety at risk.
Last Modified: 06 Jun 2013 15:39
学校が閉鎖されて生徒たちが困る、という話だが、
白人読者を対象とするNYTのクリストフらしいね。
心配しているのよ、といいながら、無視する、と。
別にクリストフだけじゃない、NYTのヒロコタブチ、ファクラーや、WSJのHayashi yuka だって、普段は女性問題を気にしているようなことをいいながら、米軍や韓国政府に搾取された朝鮮人、フィリピン人、ベトナム人女性の被害者、性奴隷問題については、無視することを選択したのである。
Mass school closures in the US' third-largest city will disrupt students' lives and put their safety at risk.
Last Modified: 06 Jun 2013 15:39
学校が閉鎖されて生徒たちが困る、という話だが、
Chicago's students were the subject of much hand-wringing last fall when their teachers went on strike, demanding textbooks, air-conditioning, and smaller classes. Nicholas Kristof spent one of his New York Times columns giving his "expert" opinion on school reform; on Twitter, he declared: "About 85% of children in Chicago public schools are from poor families; they're the big losers in the strike."
As the Chicago school board voted to send kids walking through gang territory to unfamiliar schools, Kristof was busily touting the value of "girls' education" and combating poverty and complaining about American Airlines, but not a tweet was to be found about those children he supposedly cared so much about. Nearly 90 percent of the children who will be forced to attend new schools are black, but nary a pundit clutched their pearls about that.
白人読者を対象とするNYTのクリストフらしいね。
We take for granted that certain people "care" and that if they are simply shown the error of their ways they'll fix them - but the people who make the decisions about Chicago's schools have heard the message, loud and clear. They've chosen to ignore it.
It's time to stop pretending that politicians and pundits, whose lives are far from the people they lecture, do so because they care.
心配しているのよ、といいながら、無視する、と。
別にクリストフだけじゃない、NYTのヒロコタブチ、ファクラーや、WSJのHayashi yuka だって、普段は女性問題を気にしているようなことをいいながら、米軍や韓国政府に搾取された朝鮮人、フィリピン人、ベトナム人女性の被害者、性奴隷問題については、無視することを選択したのである。
