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 increased racialisation of issues and incidents across society.” She said the phrase “white privilege” is “unnecessarily antagonistic,” and “should not be taught in schools unless it is explained that it is also contentious.” “Normalising the term ‘white privilege’ does not eliminate racism, it reinforces the notion that everyone and everything around ethnic minorities is racist and makes the majority white population more conscious about their race and exacerbates feelings of difference, creating a less cohesive society,” she wrote. Badenoch quoted a recent report by the UK’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) as saying that …