Tory MP says people using term ‘white privilege’ should be reported to the Home Office as extremists

[silvagti]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/white-privilege-tory-mp-jonathan-gullis-b1935308.html

On the one hand it seems like an over reaction but equally I object to teachers being allowed to push politically charged, anti-British and divisive concepts like "white privilege" at impressionable schoolchildren unchallenged?

I don't feel like trying to make children guilty about their ethnicity is particularly healthy so I'd actually be in favour of banning the promotion of ideologies like this in education.

 

[silvagti]

I suppose the thing I mainly disliked about the term is that it's not so much that being white gives you privelege but that not being part of the indigenous population in a country disadvantages you. If I go to another country where I don't speak the language fluently, don't have a network of people around me, don't know the local customs, have a different religion/etc then clearly it puts me at a disadvantage compared to the indigenous population in a whole array of situations.

However, I think it's pretty unreasonable to frame that in a way which accuses the indigenous population as having some kind of "privelege" just because as a migrant you're at a disadvantage!