public schools. he says all it does. and it s contentious, even the notion that it s being taught, because some argue it s an academic theory that doesn t get to schools. but in his view, what is happening is that white kids are being taught to feel shame and guilt, black kids are being taught to experience permanent victimhood, and both sides of that equation, he says, are fundamentally unhealthy. i think critical race theory is one of those phrases, like woke , that right wing people throw around to kind of scaremonger about race, to create an idea that any exploration of, you know, black history is teaching kids to hate white people. i ve tried to understand critical race theory. i spent several days on it, and i still don t really understand it. if our kids are being taught it, i think it s great. it means they re very smart, probably smarter than you and i, because they understand it. but it s not being taught. it s just a way to demonise the opposition. and, actually, i don t
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but in his view, what is happening is that white kids are being taught to feel shame and guilt, black kids are being taught to experience permanent victimhood, and both sides of that equation, he says, are fundamentally unhealthy. i think critical race theory is one of those phrases, like woke , that right wing people throw around to kind of scaremonger about race, to create an idea that any exploration of, you know, black history is teaching kids to hate white people. i ve tried to understand critical race theory. i spent several days on it, and i still don t really understand it. if our kids are being taught it, i think it s great. it means they re very smart, probably smarter than you and i, because they understand it. but it s not being taught. it s just a way to demonise the opposition. and, actually, i don t think we help ourselves by talking about decolonising curriculums. i think that creates the idea we re trying to delete parts of the canon, when, actually, i think it s ab
in this country. and i think until we teach it, we re going to keep on having these kind of circular scandals about racism. i ve just come back from the united states, where i interviewed a really interesting activist on the right of politics in the us called ryan girdusky. now, he s founded a political movement which is dedicated to stopping what he calls critical race theory being taught in american public schools. he says all it does. and it s contentious, even the notion that it s being taught, because some argue it s an academic theory that doesn t get to schools. but in his view, what is happening is that white kids are being taught to feel shame and guilt, black kids are being taught to experience permanent victimhood, and both sides of that equation, he says, are fundamentally unhealthy. i think critical race theory is one of those phrases, like woke , that right wing people throw around to kind of scaremonger about race, to create an idea that any exploration of, you know
to create an idea that any exploration of, you know, black history is teaching kids to hate white people. i ve tried to understand critical race theory. i spent several days on it, and i still don t really understand it. if our kids are being taught it, i think it s great. it means they re very smart, probably smarter than you and i, because they understand it. but it s not being taught. it s just a way to demonise the opposition. and, actually, i don t think we help ourselves by talking about decolonising curriculums. i think that creates the idea we re trying to delete parts of the canon, when, actually, i think it s about widening the curriculum, about giving an imperial context to things we already teach. what about saying sorry? is that important? because it seems to me politicians have embraced much of what you say about truth telling, about being more sort of fact based and clear eyed about what empire meant. but when it comes to demands for apology, for saying sorry, then we ve