English schoolchildren are being indoctrinated with far-left theories on race that appear to be racist toward native Britons, despite the lessons being characterised as promoting “anti-racism”. According to a report from The Telegraph, a group of schools in Sheffield has developed lessons that seek to challenge “the unequal systems that surround us in society” by teaching students about contested concepts such as “White Privilege”, which argues that white people are advantaged over other groups in Western nations.
Led by Notre Dame High School, which has been tapped by the government to train teachers and administrators from other schools, the scheme reportedly teaches students that black people cannot be racist toward white people because they do not have the requisite cultural power to be racist. The concept was developed by leftist American academic Patricia Bidol-Padva, who argued in her 1970 book Developing New Perspectives on Race that racism is prejudice plus power, and therefore supposedly disempowered ethnic minorities can only be prejudiced toward white people. Although heavily disputed, the theory has been widely picked up by social justice activists on both sides of the Atlantic, including White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo and British journalist and Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race author Reni Eddo-Lodge.
