The Education Committee has been much exercised lately with “White Privilege”. They suggest there’s no such thing. It’s a dodgy and divisive concept. We shouldn’t be addressing it. If we do we must be “impartial” and “balanced”.
Their default position can be a little unhinged. They are replete with bad faith, evasion and denial.
Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister, warns that teaching “white privilege as an uncontested fact is breaking the law” (Murray, 2020). Hmmm. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities blurs issues and laments the “unhelpful terminology” as “counterproductive and divisive” (2021).
Another is called The Forgotten: How white working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it (Education Committee, 2021). That old chestnut. It goes nowhere.
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