{"id":74787,"date":"2021-07-21T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74787"},"modified":"2021-07-21T13:24:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:24:14","slug":"british-parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state-for-equalities-completely-rejects-critical-race-theory-for-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=74787","title":{"rendered":"British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities Completely Rejects “Critical Race Theory” for the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kemi Badenoch is right to take on
\nCritical Race Theory<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Calvin Robinson
\nThe Spectator<\/p>\n

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Kemi Badenoch<\/p><\/div>\n

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Schools have a responsibility to maintain political neutrality. The Education Act (1996) states that governors and head teachers have a duty to secure balanced treatment of political ideas. The Teachers\u2019 Standards says \u2018teachers uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by ensuring that personal beliefs are not expressed in ways which exploit pupils\u2019 vulnerability or might lead them to break the law.\u2019<\/p>\n

Why, then, have schools been getting away with teaching highly contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts? The idea of \u2018white privilege\u2019, for example, is the principal element of Critical Race Theory, which teaches that white people are at a natural advantage and that black people are oppressed, based on nothing but the colour of their skin. CRT encourages a victimhood mentality among young black people, perpetuating the myth of white supremacy, and aligning blame for all societal problems on the white man.<\/p>\n

CRT tells white people they are not only privileged but racist, either overtly or unconsciously. Under these rules, a white person can either admit their racist tendencies and be labelled with \u2018white guilt\u2019, or they can deny their unconscious bias and be accused of \u2018white fragility\u2019. It is a lazy Kafkaesque trap, completely closed off from challenge and criticism by design.<\/p>\n

That is why it was so encouraging to see yesterday that Kemi Badenoch MP, the Equalities Minister, make a rousing address to Parliament during a Black History Month debate, in which she made clear that this is no longer to be tolerated. She said the government are avidly and actively against Critical Race Theory, and it has no place in our schools; any school politicising the curriculum is breaking the law.<\/p>\n