I can’t get over this. #CriticalRaceTheory as an “ideology”. Fuck off. And #BLM denigrated as “political”: OF COURSE IT’S FUCKING POLITICAL.
#ToriesOut
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FWIW, this is the Under-Secretary of State for *Equalities*...
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...who in singing the praises of Baroness Valarie Amos as a trail-blazing black woman, referred to SOAS as the “School of African and Oriental Studies”...which doesn’t speak well of a basic understanding of acronyms, but hey, we all misspeak on occasion...
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...but she was presumably not misspeaking when she said, “Our curriculum does not need to be decolonised, for the simple reason that it is not colonised.”
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Not, when threatening teachers: “Let me be clear that any school that teaches those elements of critical race theory as fact, or that promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law.”
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“Our” police aren’t like America’s police: they’re mostly unarmed, an operate “on the principle of policing by consent” — another perfect example of that classic British delusion, that serious racism is a US problem, we would never be like that...
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QED: “From the Windrush generation to the Somali diaspora, it is a story that is uniquely ours. If we forget that story and replace it with an imported Americanised narrative of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow...” I cant even...
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Truly, sickeningly brazen: “If Opposition Members want to implement their race equality strategy, they should go ahead and win an election.”
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Because of course, racial equality should only be permissible or legitimised via majority rule...
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Anyway, I’m done. This was the government minister in a
#BlackHistoryMonth
debate on decolonising the curriculum, coming out attacking #CriticalRaceTheory as “ideology” and#BLM as “political”. The transcript is on Hansard (closing the debate)https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-10-20/debates/5B0E393E-8778-4973-B318-C17797DFBB22/BlackHistoryMonth …Näytä tämä ketju -
Apropos of nothing at all...:
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Of course, there were many great speeches in the
#BlackHistoryMonth
debate:https://twitter.com/chionwurah/status/1318594560960888834?s=21 …
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And this!
#BHMdebate#BlackHistoryMonth
https://twitter.com/bellribeiroaddy/status/1318631540570624002?s=21 …
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But the danger — the real, ideological, political and yes existential danger — comes from the Government, with their blatant threats against school teachers covering
#BLM and their open antipathy towards#CriticalRaceTheory
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Of course, Badenoch and the govt have their cheerleaders...
https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1318624835937931265?s=21 …
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The minister could do with taking some classes with
@KojoKoram! On#CriticalRaceTheory
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Seriously... pure bogey-man/straw-man rhetoric, but deployed to positively dangerous effect...
#whosafraidofCRT
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