The college I currently attend is very racially diverse, and that is one of the reasons I love it. I myself am half Cypriot and half Indian, born and raised in England with two sets of immigrant grandparents, so adapting to and celebrating different cultures has always been an integral part of my life. I came to college with a very multicultural friendship group, with friends from India, England, South Africa and Hong Kong.
One of the things that I found remarkable about my college (at least on the surface) was that not only did it acknowledge this diversity, but also celebrated it. I was taken aback by the numerous focus groups, EDI boards and clubs, and initially, I felt inspired by the richness around me. However, this feeling quickly faded.
I first became concerned when our tutor was presented with a lesson on Black History Month. Personally, I have never been keen on Black History Month – I have never been able to relate to it, and all the historical figures shown seemed to have been crammed in as a progressive tokenism.
The slideshow itself was typical – a few pieces of information on the Windrush Generation and the discrimination they had to endure once arriving in the U.K. My issue came when we had to discuss the slides.
Our tutor (who happened to be white) expressed his inability to teach the slides properly due to his white privilege, claiming that he “was the problem”. Immediately, I could feel every other white student seize up. My white friend looked at me awkwardly, as if she wanted to speak, but was unable to. I recognised that with that one claim, the entire conversation had been silenced – our tutor’s guilt had unfairly been projected onto every student who happened to share his skin colour.
I raised my hand and respectfully pointed out the toxicity of the tutor’s statement. I elaborated that, assuming that he had not committed racism against another individual, he had no reason to apologise. To assume that he had wronged me simply by being born with less melanin than I had, and thus deny him access to the conversation, was as morally flawed as the logic used to deny African Americans access to restaurants and seating areas in the Jim Crow Era. Of course, I stated my race to validate such a statement, something I have always hated doing and hope I always will. My tutor responded simply that he had not thought about things that way before. I refrained from asking how he had ventured to make such a generalising claim without thinking.
After that tutor session, I began to view the EDI focus at the college differently. After months of thinking over this discomfort, I have isolated three specific issues.
Firstly, the over-emphasis on diversity within education feels degrading. I am no longer a student with individual hopes, interests and motivations; I am now just mixed-race. My most noteworthy attribute is no longer my faith, my passions or even my culture, but rather the colour of my skin. Suddenly, I and everyone else who is not white are reduced to one of the most immaterial aspects of our character. Paradoxically, we are robbed of the ability to be recognised as equals. Moreover, we are suddenly different. For no reason other than our skin colour, we are now regarded as ‘other’ and integrated into a system of acronyms and victimhood.
Secondly, it is also incredibly divisive. As seen in the tutor session, racism suddenly becomes an issue only for ethnic minorities and entry into the issue is based on race rather than experience or knowledge. The fact of the matter is that racism is a universal evil that can be experienced or perpetuated by any of us – white or otherwise. To teach racism through the untested lens of the social justice movement and Critical Race Theory is not only to segregate the classroom and betray the blindness of education, but also denies white people the ability to empathise and unite over the issue. History has proven that racism is not a plague that can be purged through division and resentment, but rather through unity and a common understanding.
Thirdly, tackling racism should not be a priority within education. Schools and colleges exist to educate – to raise a generation fully equipped to approach, tackle and embrace the world. Of course, racism is still present and achieving a proper view of the world cannot be achieved without being equipped to tackle and overcome it, but the contemporary anti-racist methods are not the solution. My own college is outstanding on this issue – our courses have retained the canonical criteria for quality, and overall, every student is appreciated and inspired as an individual. However, I am alarmed at the proposed revisions being introduced at a nationwide level. The purpose of a teacher is not to ‘decolonise the classroom’, but to present an impartial and honest view of the world. An education system that pushes material based on race alone disqualifies the groundbreaking achievements of ‘dead white men’ and forces teachers into the role of ‘social justice’ advocates rather than educators.
Education is impartial, it is colourblind and it is inspiring. It equips students of all races, cultures and ethnicities to approach the world with as much equality as possible, and opens a vast palette of opportunities for every learner. What it is not is a ‘social justice’ tool for politicised exam boards and teachers.
Peter Hosangady is a 17-year-old college student. He is a member of Don’t Divide Us, on whose website this article first appeared.
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Clown World. A fake flying virus, a scamdemic and 2 years later fired for having a brain. Why aren’t these unstabbed officers dead? I thought pedo-criminal-Biden promised a ‘winter of unvaxxed death’.
And of course the Rona Fascism was ‘legal’ and ‘necessary’ to save WA state from the terrifying IFR of 0.03%. The courts are useless, suborned, totalitarian. Laws don’t exist. Just state opinions and control.
a Supreme Court ruling that then-WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson’s Covid vaccination directive was “valid and lawful” brought an end to the injunction in April
They will be back.
Yr point about opinions and control is right but it’s now rule of law by identity. So if yr a “far right” white male the law will be fully applied but less so if a leftist BLM/climate rioter.
Two years on and the overwhelming evidence – continuing to mount daily – confirms that the C1984 injections are beyond dangerous and were brewed, as I have stated many times, to maim, sterilise and kill. Ongoing investigations and research now confirm that not only are the C1984’s deadly so to is the mRNA platform they are built on.
The case outlined above is an absolute mockery of justice. If this wasn’t 2024 the correct descriptor would be ‘unbelievable.’
Thanks Freddy
The headline would be “murder”.
The unstabbed officers should have been promoted as they’re clearly far smarter than the average plod. Braver too, for defying a nonsense order. The Deputy Commissioner has clearly acted out of spite, along the lines of ‘I was numb enough to take the risk of the jab, why weren’t you?
Terrific
Another fabulous example of western democracy. As with anything the left will never willingly kill their sacred cow. Anyone who didn’t get the jab is a nazi just like ppl who deny the earth is boiling are also. Btw they don’t care about disease or the environment they are just useful props to achieve Marx 10 point manifesto which strangely all senior socialist operatives know by heart.
During the second World War the Nazi’s forcibly carried out health experiments on some prisoners. Draw your own conclusions as what our future holds unless we fight back.
Very Depressing , good men persecuted while people like Danazi Andrews gets an award for being a Tyrant , let’s hope they can appeal & the 50 Firemen should picket their headquarters !!
Chilling. Tyranny is now ‘valid and lawful’. even though there is proof that the untested vaccine was dangerous. Where do we go from here? Courts and judges are no longer to be trusted.
“There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice” Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755).
T’was ever thus …
And safety. Don’t forget safety.
Don’t forget Benjamin Franklin on Liberty. The Aussies with their ‘Tall Poppy’ syndrome has grown into something dark & nasty. It was a Prisoner & Prison guard country after all.
Can’t have police not agreeing with everything the system says and does, now can we? Imagine the chaos that would cause! He should be burned at the stake!
Our own Junior doctors need to wake up and add to their list of demands the right to refuse to take experimental jabs and the right to refuse to inject others with experimental jabs.
Before we get carried away with what everyone knows now about the jabs, it is my understanding that these policemen were fired for disobeying “a valid and lawful directive”. This therefore has nothing directly to do with the jabs and in a way is a much more harmful finding. As far as I can see, this case means that a Police Commissioner in Aus can now pretty much issue any directive s/he likes and it must be obeyed as long as it is done in a “valid and lawful” way. Maybe there is some wriggle room in the word “valid”, but not in “lawful”.
The Nuremberg “I was just following orders” defence just got a boost imo.
A valid and lawful directive maybe. The purpose behind the directive – to accept an untested medical product was NOT legally sound.
I would argue that the Nuremberg code is still sacrosanct.
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Yet another reason to Abolish All Supreme Courts.
The sheer brass neck of them claiming to have “jurisdiction” over an individual’s own physical body! It’s just jaw-dropping madness.
In 1983 Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more. Petrov judged the reports to be a false alarm.
His subsequent decision to disobey orders, against Soviet military protocol, is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that would have resulted in a large-scale nuclear war.
It would appear that the old Soviet Union responded significantly better to Petrov than the current WA Police force and Union have done to the unvaccinated officers?
I always thought the Ozzies had the edge on us for common sense but no, they are even more stupid than I thought. Hoax vaccine and my daughter who is a lead skin cancer nurse refused to get jabbed but told me she’d sooner stack shelves in Aldi. She held out and recently got promoted.
One word…..France.
A very worrying development for the Australian people.