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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-
It's a good point, and I'm not suggesting for a second that it's on the schools or the kids themselves to deal with this, more just a sad reflection of how far we still have to go.
Contrasting it with my experience at a state comp in the 80s -90s back when the progressive liberal agenda was widely accepted, political correctness was still considered to be a vehicle for social justice and all the teachers were card carrying lefties
You got expelled for saying something racist and ostracised by your peers for holding right wing views.Assuming that generation of kids are now accepting, enabling or propagating the shite views my kids face I'm wondering whether those attitudes were there all along but not voiced for reasons of self preservation, image management or good manners...
which brings us neatly back to:
think what you like; but don't say it out loud, in case you get caught
Rik_Van_Looy
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...