Tally-ho, chums, it’s open season on rich white men! Grab a musket and ready the hounds. You’re under attack from clickbait-seeking journalists armed with “tantalising memetic cliches”, and you now have permission to shoot on sight.
Back to Tony George, though. In his wide-ranging essay, he canvassed the need to aspire to “the formation of men who are empathetic leaders”, but then moved adroitly to a spirited excoriation of “sections of government and the press seem intent on deriding independent boys schools … invariably referencing the kind of clickbait memes that tantalise memetic cliches”.
And let’s certainly not revisit the other tabloid beat-up that resulted after he signed off on four business-class flights to the UK so he and his deputy and their spouses could watch the Royal Henley Regatta. Would someone please call the Anti-Discrimination Commission? White privileged males are under attack again.
It’s these same fee-paying parents who are looking for some ROI from their private schools that does not involve teachers looking up their students’ skirts, targeted floggings by a group of Year 9 kids, or muck-day rituals targeting Asians and “ugly chicks”, to name a few recent lowlights. None of these incidents, it should be noted, involved The King’s School.