Tag: white privilege

Schools Shouldn’t Teach ‘White Privilege’, UK Minister Says

British schools should not teach the term “white privilege” unless they explain that it is a “highly contentious” concept, because it is divisive and “unnecessarily antagonistic,” a UK government minister has warned. Writing in The Telegraph, Kemi Badenoch, Britain’s equalities minister, said, “The intense focus on race over the last year is leading to an…


Schools ‘Not There to Be a Political Space,’ Says Gavin Williamson

Schools must be impartial and there is “no space” for them to be showing or pushing political views, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said. Williamson was asked about the use of the term “white privilege” and whether the Department for Education (DfE) could intervene and tell a school it was not an appropriate term to…


‘White Privilege’ Rhetoric May Have Contributed to ‘Systemic Neglect’ of White Pupils, MPs

The use of terms such as “white privilege” may be one of the reasons white working-class pupils are persistently falling behind in the UK, a Parliament committee has said. The Education Select Committee said that it agreed with the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities that discourse around the term ‘White Privilege’ can be divisive, and that…


NZ Opposition Leader Condemns Teaching Kids ‘White Privilege’ in Classrooms

New Zealand Opposition Leader Judith Collins has decried a scheme by that country’s education ministry that teaches children about recognising “white privilege.” The scheme, dubbed Te Hurihanganui, was launched in October last year with the stated purpose to “address racism and inequity,” and accelerate the educational achievement of “ākonga Māori” (the Māori word for student). One of…


NZ Opposition Leader: Teaching Kids ‘White Privelege’ is Building Divisons and Creating Hatred

New Zealand Opposition Leader Judith Collins has decried a scheme by that country’s education ministry that teaches children about recognising “white privilege.” The scheme, dubbed Te Hurihanganui, was launched in October last year with the stated purpose to “address racism and inequity,” and accelerate the educational achievement of “ākonga Māori” [the Māori word for student]. One of…


Lockheed Martin Trained Top Employees to Recognize ‘White Male Privileges’: Report

Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense giant known for developing America’s next-generation warplanes, sent its executive-level employees to learn about privileges they supposedly have as white straight males, a new report says. The three-day training session, hosted on Zoom last June for a 13-member “White Men’s Caucus,” started with a “free association” in which the term…


‘Very Few’ Disparities Linked to Racism: UK Commission

British society is not rigged against ethnic minorities and very few racial disparities are caused by racism, an independent review has found. The review was published on Wednesday by the independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which was set up by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July 2020 to examine inequality in the UK…