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I remember kids at my junior school singing what I assume were National Front songs, won't repeat it but I particularly remember one to the tune of what shall we do with the drunken sailor. I guess they would have got them from older brothers or the older kids rather than parents. I think it was more than thinking it was funny or edgy.
I'd hope that doesn't happen any more.
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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: