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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Well this is doubly tragic but I’ll let you read it and draw your own conclusions;
”A two-month-old boy who was born prematurely after his mother suffered a fatal blood clot died in his sleep just weeks later, an inquest has heard.
Dexter Khan-Barnes was born at just 32 weeks after being delivered by emergency caesarean section when his mother, Laura Barnes, developed the clot.
At Wednesday’s hearing the court was told by Laura’s mother, Jennifer Barnes, that her daughter had suffered a stroke in the months prior to her death and the premature birth of Dexter.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12171763/Baby-born-prematurely-blood-clot-killed-mother-tragically-died-just-two-months-later-sleep.html
So many tragic coincidences afflicting the one family.
Call me paranoid but I’m just thinking of all the pregnant women coerced and scared into getting jabbed, being lied to that they were at increased risk from a virus, and thinking, ”what are the odds?” It doesn’t mention her age but she looks very young in the picture. Young, healthy women don’t just have a stroke. Personally I think family has a duty now, a moral obligation, to declare publicly if their loved one had the jab or not. If they don’t I always think, ”why not? Why’s nobody mentioning this incredibly relevant detail?”. Think I’m getting too suspicious for my own good but I’m even wondering if they’re getting some sort of back-hander, a bribe, in order to silence them. After all, what would anyone have to lose by saying someone’s been vaxxed or not? They’ve already lost a beloved family member FFS?
Sadly Mogs I suspect our original and worst fears are playing out. Mothers are going to die young, babies are going to die very young, children won’t reach adulthood and young adults will find they are infertile. I am sad and angry but these types of events will inevitably become more common. It has all been planned for.
The artcle states that the child had been seen by a nurse at his home the day before he died. One can only speculate, but were the 8 week jabs administered during that visit? The baby was only just reaching the developmental status of a new born.
The grand-daughter of someone I know was born three months prematurely last year. The mother is a nurse and vaccinated as required including during the pregnancy. The baby was born with organs in the wrong place, organs adhering to each other, poorly functioning kidneys and brain damage. She’s had multiple operations with more to come and will never lead any kind of normal life. She was in hospital for the first 9 months of her life, home to a specially adapted environment for about 8 weeks and requiring 24 hours a day care then readmitted to hospital where she has been for months. It is desperately sad for all involved.
I believe it’s a result of the vaccinations the mother had but obviously can’t say that as being a nurse the mother did all the “right” things and vaccinations are believed to be a Good Thing. I contrast the vaccination of pregnant women with the fact that when I was pregnant I was expected NOT to touch even so much as a paracetamol. How times change…
You are quite right. It beggars belief that pregnant women are presumably still advised to avoid soft cheeses and pate but the mRNA novel, toxic junk is totally encouraged! Insanity. Your above story is absolutely tragic. 🙁 In my book nowadays, it is always the vax until proven otherwise.
One can only sympathise with both this poor child and its parents, but there is a word of warning to be added. Having studied embryology at University and seen the distressing range of bodily changes that can result to a foetus in utero (the worst resulting in spontaneous abortion), it is a constant amazement to me that a baby is born complete and whole.
I hope this was written by Chat GPT.
That’s funny, I enjoyed the article though.
Ah, Chat GPT – that upstart Frankophile moggy with GPS to strategically crap all over your brassicas, spinach and sanity.
Please don’t refer to Gadsby as “Australian”.
She/he/it/they is/are “Tasmanian”.
Tasmania is to Australia what Gadsby is to comedy.
Or, Tasmania is Australia’s scrotum.
(Strong sarcasm alert here regarding Tasmania, not Gadsby, for the literal minded down-tickers)
Nice one Dr G 👍
Theresa May
Ronnie Wood
Brian Cant
Immanuel Kant
Sadiq Khan
I expect Jeremy Irons to be always very neatly dressed.
I wonder about Lionel Messi’s kitchen.
The science of names is a fascinating, and probably under-researched, topic.
I think – like it or not – names affect how we think (subliminally) about a person, especially initially, probably for various reasons, not least because we associate the name of a person with someone we previously know with the same name. In my 20s I was in love with a beautiful girl called Anna, I never really fell out of love with her. Ever since, I have a prejudice in favour of anyone called Anna, I immediately like them more than if they were called, for example, Daphne or Liz. It may turn out that Daphne or Liz is a far more wonderful person that any of the Anna’s (apart from the first!) but that’s prejudice for you!
I write fiction, and it sometimes takes me longer to decide on the name of a character than to write pages of dialogue.
My friend and I find names which are commands amusing, especially footballers, as you can imagine their coach shouting instructions at them from the touchline. Just a few examples off the top of my head:
Peter Crouch
Terry Neill
Luke Young
Winston Reid
Ian Wright
In politics:
Jeremy Hunt
Mel Stride
and last but not least:
Donald Trump!
In the 1970s I knew a person from Derry whose real name was Donald Tuck (what were his parents thinking?) I was never with him when he was stopped by the British army, I can only imagine it!
I’ve found that midnight feasts do not agree with me and I suffer from hydrophobia due to previous horrific experiences with water.
A GP of my acquaintance is called William Willcock. His father was a vicar so the likely reactions to his son’s name probably passed him by?!!
“Elon Musk. Those on the left hold him in bad odour.”
Until about three years ago, it was very much the other way around. Socialist Kalifornian Politicians and People used to love him – and he them! – until they ran out of other people’s money to give him for crappy cars and all his other boondoggles.
Then, as if by magic, Elon began to court that other tribe, “the right”, where he found a willing audience for his sudden change of tune (unbeknownst to them).
The Subsidy Truffle Hound and Pretengineer, Mr Elon Reeve Musk. The guy is a genius, just not in the way most believe.
Well I enjoyed that, it was so entertaining. My only problem was prefixing Sunak as Rikki as it reminds me of the Rikki-Tik a place of much musical and other youthful enjoyment in Windsor and Sunak is about as far from that as possible.
Funny and clever. Brilliant!
‘The Foreign Office
London
6th April 1943
My Dear Reggie,
In these dark days man tends to look for little shafts of light that spill from Heaven.
My days are probably darker than yours, and I need, my God I do, all the light I can get.
But I am a decent fellow, and I do not want to be mean and selfish about what little brightness is shed upon me from time to time.
So I propose to share with you a tiny flash that has illuminated my sombre life and tell you that God has given me a new Turkish colleague whose card tells me that he is called Mustapha Kunt.
We all feel like that, Reggie, now and then, especially when Spring is upon us, but few of us would care to put it on our cards.
It takes a Turk to do that.
[Signed]
Sir Archibald Clerk Kerr,
H.M. Ambassador.’