Passive Racism?

[Black Orchid]

Scholastic has pulled a book by "Captain Underpants" author Dav Pilkey that the publisher says "perpetuates passive racism."

"The Adventures of Ook and Gluk," published in 2010, served as a spinoff of sorts from his popular "Captain Underpants" children's series: The two main characters from "Underpants" are listed as the author and illustrator of the book, during which they sought to clear up "science facts" with a story about time-traveling cavemen who train at Master Wong's School of Kung-Fu.

Pilkey said he created the book to "showcase diversity, equality and non-violent conflict resolution" using "principles found in Chinese philosophy" but had recently been alerted that it "also contains harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertai ... 037308002/

Another one bites the dust. Apparently it promotes 'passive racism'. What a world of whiny little girls we live in. I'm sure Red can relate well though lol.

[Valkie]

Only whites acn be racist.

Everyone knows that,

[Valkie]

It jsut keeps getting better every day

The simple fact is that white privileged is;

Working, Saving, contributing and not pissing all your money against the wall.

Lesson in brain washing
EXCLUSIVE
CLARISSA BYE

Bizarre ‘white privilege game’ in schools teaches kids Australia is racist

OFFICIAL lesson plans provided by the NSW Education Department teaching schoolchildren about “white privilege” and stating that everyone has “unconscious bias” have been condemned as “indoctrination”.

The NSW Department of Education-run website called “Racism No Way” provides lesson plans to combat racism, but includes a bizarre “privilege for sale” game that education bureaucrats admit “can be deeply triggering” for children and “create feelings of shame”.

Education bureaucrats also warn students might need to “seek the help of a counsellor” after studying an Indigenous rap song called I Can’t Breathe and being told Australian institutions are racist, with other lesson plans questioning the Australian flag.

The content has been slammed for creating “mini social justice activists who will grow up hating Australia because they believe it’s racist”.

But NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell is resisting calls to can the website.

The student worksheets also claim governments want to “subvert or silence the true history of Australia” because they don’t want to face “uncomfortable truths about the past” and promote the “stereotype Australia is the Lucky Country when in fact it’s only lucky for a select few”.

Institute of Public Affairs Western Civilisation researcher Bella d’Abrera said it was “extremely racist” itself to teach the “false idea” of white privilege because it tells white children they are bad people due to the colour of their skin.

She said children as young as four should not be “indoctrinated” with radical race theory teaching that white people are racist and that Australia is a racist country.

“Children need to be taught the basics of literacy and numeracy by their teachers ... and should be protected from this rubbish,” she said.

The official website states “the first step to addressing your unconscious biases is to acknowledge that everyone has them”. A separate lesson plan called Got White Privilege? has students watch a US video called “You don’t have to be racist to have white privilege” which tells them “white people get perks”.

The materials state “White Australians” have European, British or German ancestry and that privilege means an “unearned advantage or entitlement” and recommends “identifying individuals who due to their privilege are granted unearned advantages”.

“It is important to identify these inherent advantages in order to reject them so that they do not continue to reinforce our present hierarchies,” the lesson notes state.

One Nation MP Mark Latham, who campaigns to remove political material from school lessons, said “political voodoo theories” such as white privilege and unconscious bias were not only confusing children but destroying the innocence of childhood.

“Visit a public housing in Sydney and you can see white people in pretty desperate circumstances,” he said. “And unconscious bias is like a medieval superstition.’’

New schools program is dangerous and divisive
BELLA D’ABRERA


IF you thought Safe Schools was bad, wait until you find out what the NSW Education department is doing to make schools unsafe in this state.

As part of an initiative called ‘Racism. No Way!’ children from Kindergarten to Year 12 are being indoctrinated with lessons in unconscious bias, white privilege and institutional racism.

While the initiative bills itself as ‘anti-racism education for Australian schools’, the reality is it has turned the classroom into a highly politicised environment in which children are being told Australia’s history, as well as its institutions, are racist, and white people should feel guilty about being white.

The lessons, which claim to ‘develop the foundation knowledge and skills needed to counter racism, prejudice, and discrimination’ have been designed to be taught across all learning areas of the NSW curriculum.

And because the people behind ‘Racism. No Way!’ believe you can never start too early, they have developed a series of ‘anti- prejudice’ classroom activities for kindergarten children.

In ‘Understanding Prejudice,’ fouryear-olds who are barely able to write their own name are asked to discuss ‘discrimination which exists between the two groups as well as its effects’.

Meanwhile, their 10-year-old counterparts are being introduced to ‘Critical Race Theory’ in lessons such as ‘Racist Behaviour’ which explains that ‘sometimes it’s hard to recognise racism, especially if you’re not the target’ and that ‘racism is a policy or system of government and society based upon it.’

In a lesson called ‘Institutional Racism’, teenagers are required to ‘identity, define and consider effects of institutional racism,’ while in ‘National Symbols’ they are asked to consider if the Australian flag is really appropriate for Australia today.

By the time they reach secondary school, it’s all about ‘white privilege’.

Students watch an American film called ‘you don’t have to be racist to have white privilege’ featuring a feisty woman of colour explaining that from the moment a white person is born, they are afforded certain privileges.

There is no place for this dangerous ideology which chips away at individual and national identity in Australian schools. Parents need to know that their impressionable children who are barely out of nappies are being indoctrinated with radical race theory which comes straight out of academia.

It is wrong to tell Australian children the country of their citizenship is racist to its core. Instead, they need to know our society is formed on universal institutions and values of western civilisation which have helped shape the historical development of our society.

These institutions have given us rights and freedoms which apply to all, not just to certain groups.

Respect for the individual, equality of men and women under the law, abolition of slavery and freedom of speech, liberal democracy and equal claim to rights as citizens apply to all Australians, no matter their race.

Australian children should be taught to appreciate the universality of these values and traditions, rather than be turned into mini social justice activists who will grow up hating both themselves and Australia.

The NSW Education Minister should do everything in her power to protect children from this dangerous and divisive ideology.

Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of the Foundations of Western Civilizations programme at the institute of public affairs