Secular Sage

Austin Powers famously quipped that he hated two kinds of people, people who are intolerant of others cultures and the Dutch. Well, there are two kinds of people I can no longer bear, people who discriminate against people groups and all proponents of critical race theory. I am consciously Bias!

I was horrified by a Channel 4 documentary recently introduced to me by my teenage kids, thankfully but also disturbingly as comic relief. It’s funny not funny. I thought this kind of stuff only happened in the United States. It’s hard to know where to start pulling it apart but let’s try.

The social experiment that justified the three week horror show was completely rigged in the first instance. Kids were told to drag images of black kids towards the “bad” box and images of white kids toward the “good” box without thinking. Of course the students found this challenging, given how unnatural the task is for London children in a very mixed race school, and paused or switched direction after a split second. Eventually they got into an instinctive rhythm, right at which point they were told to do exactly the opposite. In a healthy fast rhythm of finger flicking in accordance with the old set of rules, they now had to break the pattern mentally to swipe the other way. Obviously many mistakes were made. And the outcome: British kids find it harder to associate black kids with good than they do associating black kids with bad. Ergo, systemic unconscious racism. Obviously.

This was only the beginning. The results were announced to the class, 18 of the 24 kids were racist against “people of colour”, 4 were neutral and 2 were racist against black people. Leaving aside the fact that most of the class was non-white, all the white kids naturally felt dejected, 10 years olds being taught in class by teachers, who are not 1 percentile contrarian, are going to go along with this and believe what they are taught. They were then split into two classrooms. Some mixed race kids were traumatised simply by having to decide which class to go into. Once it was decided, we get a view into the white class. The kids were miserable, no one knew what to say or how to even respond to this new revelation. They were also given a weak miserable little teacher to match the mood. Needless to say it wasn’t a very vibrant session, when pushed to speak, they reflected on how upset they were to discover that they were racists. This was immediately contrasted with the other class, which was more like a normal class, these kids had not been chastised and so why would it not be. The point of course was that white kids live with a burden for their racism that the rest do not feel as they are not guilty of the same.

the documentary moves on to a separate event where kids were told to bring in something that represented their race and culture, essentially a show and tell. It was highlighted that white kids didn’t really have a culture as they stumbled, showing off their English flags and Bobby hats to a classroom full of English nationals! What does one expect, the point for a kid of show and tell is to be interesting, to stand out, I wouldn’t know what to bring myself. English culture has had a greater influence on the modern world, and vastly positive, than perhaps any other culture in history. But we are all English, and these artefacts are common place to everyone in the room. Only those with some other heritage could possibly be interesting or surprising in this context, including those who were white but whose heritage was South African or Australian for example. Of course, none of these kids were to be found, this would have weakened the race argument being made substantially.

At this point I couldn’t actually take it anymore and told my kids that if this ever came up in class again I wanted to know. I went to bed enraged by how such weak, ignorant, misguided and pure evil ideas could be propagated in our schools, aimed at the most vulnerable, who are least able to understand just how flawed and dangerous the philosophy is in so many ways.

I had heard reports through friends and the media from America, and I have had to complete “unconscious bias” courses at work, but never had I actually been exposed to the full horror of this doctrine and seen first hand the effects it was having on children in real time. It is truly shocking that this is happening in any schools, no wonder this was one of the issues Americans voted against and one which Kemi Badenoch is adamant about eradicating from British schools.

I hope politicians in this country, across the isle, have enough sense to keep this nonsense at bay, at very least I hope that the wonderful, open-minded, multi-cultural people of this country have the sense to eliminate any politicians who don’t, quickly.