The BBC has admitted that the concept of “white privilege” is contested after its youth-focused news service received a complaint over its “controversial” definition of the term. The Telegraph has more.
An article dedicated to teaching children about the concept, which includes sections defining the term and explaining how people can “use white privilege for good”, was branded as politically partisan by campaigners.
Now the article, originally published in 2020, has been signposted with a link to a new explainer that “examines arguments about the concept’s use” and admits it is a “contested area”.
It comes after the campaign group Don’t Divide Us, which seeks to promote a “common sense” approach to race, complained to the broadcaster.
The group’s Director said that they were “pleased” with the addition but added that the original content should not remain on the Newsround site where children can read the “divisive” resource.
Dr. Alka Sehgal Cuthbert told the Telegraph: “Although we’re pleased the BBC has recognised ‘white privilege’ is a contested term, the original content remains on the Newsround site, where children will continue to read its historical distortions about black and white people in America.
“No educator or broadcaster should be pushing controversial, U.S.-imported ideology to schoolchildren as fact.
“As the national broadcaster, the BBC has a duty towards impartiality as set out in its own editorial standards. Telling children that they are inherently privileged or disadvantaged purely because of their race is divisive and has no place within any educational resource for children.”
The new resource on Newsround is titled: “What do people mean by white privilege and why do they have different views about it?”
The article explains that the concept shot to the forefront of the public sphere after the death of George Floyd in America in 2020, but adds that it is a “term that some people find unhelpful”.
It reads: “There is also debate as to how accurate it is and how useful it is in tackling racism and inequality.”
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“I could convert to Judaism, what connection to the “holy land” does that give me, does that give me the right to go and steal someone’s land and house..
It is irrational lunacy to think we can determine international politics in this way….”
You know what… George Galloway is bang on… Yet again..
https://youtu.be/tc3Gf7HkMVw?si=5ujKalqGAjccyujg
Yep, as I thought, thanks for the clarification … Imbecilic.
Can’t wait to meet at the DS Xmas party………are we to have our contributor names on a lanyard….
Can’t wait…
When all you do is name call people as morons, imbeciles, plonkers and idiots all you do is admit you don’t have much confidence in your own argument if you need personal abuse to make it. ——-I would watch those cornflakes your munching on this morning if I were you, I think they might be a bit tainted, but then again it’s all down to personal taste what?
Yes you will be disappointed that all the women at the party have been allowed to keep their private parts intact and are free to maybe wear a short skirt if they please.
We are all “Far Right”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZFNxwgkQc
I think we’re all ”Right So Far”. Mind you, this dude is taking ”white privilege” to the extreme. I think the guy smelt like lamppost;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthV4yZ0t2k&ab_channel=DailyvideosLive
Dr Gabor Mate
“The present situation cannot be understood without looking at the historical context.”
https://youtu.be/ph9XF39yjgU?si=pEIsvBUNPXsIb8zu
I am white but I was born this way. If everyone else in this country was white then surely nobody could be accused of being privileged by virtue of the colour of their skin.
I think a solution is taking shape…
Yep.
I’m 62. For almost all of my life everybody was white, and everything was fine.
My village is still 97% white. I’d love it if somebody could explain, using reason and evidence, why that is a Bad Thing.
White privilege includes:
-Being a white slave, slave traded from the pagan empires to the Muslim, some 25 million white slaves in various Moslem empires over 1400 yrs
-Suffering through Greek, Roman, Celt, Briton and Saxon slave trading
-Being one of the 300.000 indentured white slaves in 17th c America
-Living and working in squalor and filth in 19th c hovels
-Working and dying in mines, industry and at sea discovering the globe
-Dying in millions during 2 world wars
-Setting up hospitals, orphanages, charities, public works, industrialisation, technological advances, parliaments, constitutions for the improvement of mankind
-Fighting a civil war and losing 10000 men at sea to stop black slaving
-Establishing modern science, the arts, letters, music, architecture and civilisation
Just some facts which support my white privilege and superiority.
I am waiting for the discovery of some black tribe deep in the jungle who have independently developed all these things in the absence of white input.
Yes indeed. I was searching hard for the Carvaggio equivalent in the Congo, the Pierre Duhem of Djibouti, the Albert Magnus of Abyssinia, the Rossini of Rwanda, but alas, to no avail.
Though the fake culture does inform me that Beethoven was black bruv, and that Muslims and Blacks invented everything from heliocentricity to computers.
Black history month – oh that was fast. Over already. Thanks for joining.
Yep “Diversity” only works in one direction. ————Less white people.
Treacherous and treasonous BBC
In a way you’ve got to laugh because the concept of white privilege is racist. If I weee not white I’d want to punch people who go on about it
Hgfff
I’m white ……. but since I’m also freckled, with green eyes and ginger hair I’ve never felt terribly privileged. In fact, throughout my childhood I was on the receiving end of quite a lot of teasing – which would now be called abuse or discrimination.
I’m sure my mental health must have suffered as a result. In fact, if I think really, really hard about various incidences, I could probably make a case that my best friend throughout my childhood (a mixed-race black girl) was far more privileged than me since no-one ever teased her.
I also have (unsurprisingly) Scottish and Irish heritage …. and the Scots and Irish were on the receiving end of discrimination from the English for centuries.
In fact, I suspect that in the intersectional hierarchy of victims, I score quite highly.
I’m astounded that the BBC hasn’t identified that and I demand an apology from the King and “fair” treatment, which must include a sizeable transfer of money from taxpayers (only the English ones, natch) as compensation.
Where do I make my claim?
Ditto I was a Welsh kid at an English Boarding School….Where is my compo for so many “Welsh Pig” insults!