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James Robertson

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Let 'em rot Posted: Oct 22, 2006 10:16 AM
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Scoble points to the last Gillmore Gang - Dana Gardner and Jason Calacanis got into a pretty good fight over public/private charity. I started listening to that a week ago while jogging; I've actually looked into some of the issues they were arguing over, and was a teacher 20 years ago. I stopped listening, because every additional second I listened, I lost respect for Gardner. Why?

He was arguing that Jason Calacanis' entirely admirable efforts to rescue a few children from bad schools was an act of evil, designed to "destroy" public education. That's a really, really stupid argument, without regard to what issue you try and deploy it against. The bottom line is, any effort to help people in need is admirable, and Jason should be saluted for caring enough to try. Gardner can go suck eggs. When you let ideology (of any stripe) blind you to good acts, you've lost some of your humanity.

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