Chauncey - did you actually read this article? All of it? It contains these sentiments:
Quote: “To this day, fewer than 5% of people in low-income countries have received even one dose of COVID vaccine. The death toll from this is immense.”
Comment: Nonsense. We know the vaccines do not prevent Covid infection. And Africa, for instance, where there has been comparatively little vaccinating has been comparatively little infected.
Quote: “[Gates] is perhaps the key driver behind the American charter school movement — an attempt to essentially privatize the U.S. education system. Charter schools are deeply unpopular with teachers’ unions, which see the movement as an attempt to lessen their autonomy and reduce public oversight into how and what children are taught.”
Comment: The charter school movement is excellent. If Gates is helping to preserve it, good for Gates! It is the teachers’ unions that I abominate. They insisted on closing the schools in fear of Covid, still insist on masking even very small children, very dangerously for them. Of course the appalling teacher’s unions - full of bad teachers who cannot be fired - oppose the charter schools. The existence of them limits their powers. It is "public oversight " - ie. government oversight - of what is taught that has turned education into indoctrination. Leftist, “woke” indoctrination - the exposing of children to CRT, pornography, heavy persuasion to “transgender”. Children are emerging from the public schools obsessed with sex, hating “whiteness” and either guilt-ridden if white or sorry for themselves as “victims” if black - and totally illiterate. “Public oversight” is a typically leftist euphemism for disallowing parents to have a say in what their children may and may not be subjected to at school.
Quote: “Philanthropy can and is being used deliberately to divert attention away from different forms of economic exploitation that underpin global inequality today,” said Linsey McGoey, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, U.K., and author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy. She adds: “The new ‘philanthrocapitalism’ threatens democracy by increasing the power of the corporate sector at the expense of the public sector organizations, which increasingly face budget squeezes, in part by excessively remunerating for-profit organizations to deliver public services that could be delivered more cheaply without private sector involvement. Charity, as former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee noted, “is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim".
Comment: That is a shout for socialism from a leftist fanatic!
What I don’t like about Gates is is his participation in Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset movement. To criticize him for that is a conservative’s business. The Grayzone is criticizing him from the left.
