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better training on how to use social media...
Indeed, I found this a bit baffling, surely the effort should go into coaching young white men not to be racist/sexist twerps.
Having said that, I suspect this may be quite a massive task... My kids attended a majority white suburban secondary and witnessed a culture of white teenage boys identifing as an increasingly marginalised and oppressed minority needing to fight the liberal tide of race and gender values that threatens their birthright as proud english men...Early on I found this shocking especially when the level of privilege is so great they should be wringing their hands with embarassment rather than whinging about a percieved loss of their god given right to be a sexist/racist twat.
Now it just seems like a depressing normality, especially when public servants like Dowden & Johnson encourage this bizarre behaviour...
Rik_Van_Looy-
Early on I found this shocking especially when the level of privilege is so great they should be wringing their hands with embarassment rather than whinging about a percieved loss of their god given right to be a sexist/racist twat.
At what point is a child responsible for educating themselves instead of absorbing the opinions of their parents/friends parents/ older brothers/media etc? It sounds like you expect secondary school age children to completely re-evaluate the world they're told is true up to this point.
It's disappointing that it happens, yes, but it doesn't surprise me. I totally agree more coaching is required, but I fear this is laying seeds for change of thinking in such children, not something that can uturn their views. #NotAChildPsychologist
Yukirin
yeah but it does show yet again that there's a queue a mile long made up of people happy to write cheques for cis white men who say shitty things about minorities, regardless of the circumstances.
interesting to note how a lot of the reportage around this has been about how young white men who find themselves in spotlight need better training on how to use social media...