If the kids (especially that young) are being racist, chances are the racism is coming from home.
I don’t know immediately of a better solution, but I don’t think this is it.
BobMonkhaus on
Clearly we need nursery racism education lessons for toddlers.
Longjumping-Yak-6378 on
What racism is it that the right wing pundit is saying that they are repeating? Which right wing pundit is outwardly racist?
If you can’t answer just downvote instead and I’ll know I’m wrong for asking.
David_Kennaway on
All racism is abhorrent. Including the anti-white racism from teachers indoctrination of CRT making children feel guilty for being born white. Here is an inconvienient truth, whites are a minority in the world. Only 16% of the world population is white which means that 84% are people of colour. So we need to stamp out all racism including racism against the white minority. Watch me get hate and moderated for this comment.
AJGibbo on
It’s easy to point it at parents being racist at home and kids taking that to school but I’ve known kids just not want to play/work with others because of their skin colour and that’s in the early school years. It’s more about the kids being taught / shown that the differences don’t matter. Children of all backgrounds may not have been exposed to meeting and interacting with others of different backgrounds. It’s just a case of showing them it’s fine.
Longjumping_Stand889 on
I feel like I need to see examples. I assume it’s slurs being used, in which case I’d also like to see examples of right wing figures in the media using slurs.
Technical-Economy-56 on
Racism is the lowest, most primitive, barnyard form of collectivism there is. As we become more collectivist and tribalist, the amount of racism will naturally grow out of it.
You wanted more collectivism, you have it. Increase racism and all.
Nulibru on
Yebutnobut they’re just expressing their legitimate concerns and asking questions innit.
AKAGreyArea on
Four year old should not be getting sent home ffs. They barely know what they are saying at such young age.
Euclid_Interloper on
Are primary school kids being sent home straight off the bat for saying something racist? Or is this the result of persistent behaviours?
I’m asking because, and I’m not proud of this, but I remember using a racist word to a black kid when I was about 8/9. I didn’t even think I was being mean, I’d just heard the word used elsewhere. (This was almost 30 years ago, so I guess the climate would have been different).
I had a really nice teacher. He sat me down, asked me why I used that word, explained why it was hurtful, and then had me apologise to the other kid (who was my friend btw!). I continued being friends with the kid until we ended up going to different highschools. I learned something about the world, and I believe I came away as a better person thanks to that teacher.
I guess what I’m saying is, I hope teachers are still dealing with these situations with an intelligent, teachable approach. Just sending a kid home, to parents that taught them that behaviour in the first place, seems like just fobbing off the problem and I don’t see it fixing the crux of the issue.
Affectionate_Ad3560 on
I believe it is because parents are getting worse.
Not too mention how fed up the local population are of higher prices etc etc and the easy scapegoat is asylum seekers, which lets be real is an absolute joke at the minute.Â
MaxCherry64 on
Or could it be because there is just so much focus on it, that it’s just being massively magnified…. We were making so much progress in the nineties, where the focus was on “not seeing race” as a positive thing, and now it’s seen for some reason as a negative.
If racism / “so called anti-racism” and obsession by people over race, and being offended all the time, wasn’t such a cultural zeitgeist for the past 10 years, then perhaps kids wouldn’t be so exposed to the negative energies. It’s just constant….
Obviously it’s also led to a massive increase in the far right as it’s given them plenty of excuses to increase their genuine racism to new heights.
The left never learns, and neither does the hard right, and the rest of us in the centre left are just banging our heads against the wall.
Simple_Bathroom2119 on
Social media has a lot to do with it. Of course nursery kids aren’t on social media but social media is pushing and tailoring the algorithm to people who engage in racist content. This normalises the behaviour and the behaviour will be seen in real life in their own homes…
If you look at the online hate right now, South Asians get an insane amount of dislike online calling for their genocide, racial slurs, racial stereotypes, basically the most inhumane actions against them. This sort of behaviour has been so normalised now that people genuinely believe a lot of the sh*t they see online because their phone is their own little bubble. Their algorithm and Google searches and every social media is pushing this sort of content towards them.
Primary school kids and secondary school kids are also seeing these videos. Racism has definitely increased with kids those ages…
We are truly regressing.
Romado on
Behaviour like this in children so young can only be coming from home. Really should be a route for schools to escalate when it keeps happening, parents allowing their child to be racist probably ain’t very good parents….
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If the kids (especially that young) are being racist, chances are the racism is coming from home.
I don’t know immediately of a better solution, but I don’t think this is it.
Clearly we need nursery racism education lessons for toddlers.
What racism is it that the right wing pundit is saying that they are repeating? Which right wing pundit is outwardly racist?
If you can’t answer just downvote instead and I’ll know I’m wrong for asking.
All racism is abhorrent. Including the anti-white racism from teachers indoctrination of CRT making children feel guilty for being born white. Here is an inconvienient truth, whites are a minority in the world. Only 16% of the world population is white which means that 84% are people of colour. So we need to stamp out all racism including racism against the white minority. Watch me get hate and moderated for this comment.
It’s easy to point it at parents being racist at home and kids taking that to school but I’ve known kids just not want to play/work with others because of their skin colour and that’s in the early school years. It’s more about the kids being taught / shown that the differences don’t matter. Children of all backgrounds may not have been exposed to meeting and interacting with others of different backgrounds. It’s just a case of showing them it’s fine.
I feel like I need to see examples. I assume it’s slurs being used, in which case I’d also like to see examples of right wing figures in the media using slurs.
Racism is the lowest, most primitive, barnyard form of collectivism there is. As we become more collectivist and tribalist, the amount of racism will naturally grow out of it.
You wanted more collectivism, you have it. Increase racism and all.
Yebutnobut they’re just expressing their legitimate concerns and asking questions innit.
Four year old should not be getting sent home ffs. They barely know what they are saying at such young age.
Are primary school kids being sent home straight off the bat for saying something racist? Or is this the result of persistent behaviours?
I’m asking because, and I’m not proud of this, but I remember using a racist word to a black kid when I was about 8/9. I didn’t even think I was being mean, I’d just heard the word used elsewhere. (This was almost 30 years ago, so I guess the climate would have been different).
I had a really nice teacher. He sat me down, asked me why I used that word, explained why it was hurtful, and then had me apologise to the other kid (who was my friend btw!). I continued being friends with the kid until we ended up going to different highschools. I learned something about the world, and I believe I came away as a better person thanks to that teacher.
I guess what I’m saying is, I hope teachers are still dealing with these situations with an intelligent, teachable approach. Just sending a kid home, to parents that taught them that behaviour in the first place, seems like just fobbing off the problem and I don’t see it fixing the crux of the issue.
I believe it is because parents are getting worse.
Not too mention how fed up the local population are of higher prices etc etc and the easy scapegoat is asylum seekers, which lets be real is an absolute joke at the minute.Â
Or could it be because there is just so much focus on it, that it’s just being massively magnified…. We were making so much progress in the nineties, where the focus was on “not seeing race” as a positive thing, and now it’s seen for some reason as a negative.
If racism / “so called anti-racism” and obsession by people over race, and being offended all the time, wasn’t such a cultural zeitgeist for the past 10 years, then perhaps kids wouldn’t be so exposed to the negative energies. It’s just constant….
Obviously it’s also led to a massive increase in the far right as it’s given them plenty of excuses to increase their genuine racism to new heights.
The left never learns, and neither does the hard right, and the rest of us in the centre left are just banging our heads against the wall.
Social media has a lot to do with it. Of course nursery kids aren’t on social media but social media is pushing and tailoring the algorithm to people who engage in racist content. This normalises the behaviour and the behaviour will be seen in real life in their own homes…
If you look at the online hate right now, South Asians get an insane amount of dislike online calling for their genocide, racial slurs, racial stereotypes, basically the most inhumane actions against them. This sort of behaviour has been so normalised now that people genuinely believe a lot of the sh*t they see online because their phone is their own little bubble. Their algorithm and Google searches and every social media is pushing this sort of content towards them.
Primary school kids and secondary school kids are also seeing these videos. Racism has definitely increased with kids those ages…
We are truly regressing.
Behaviour like this in children so young can only be coming from home. Really should be a route for schools to escalate when it keeps happening, parents allowing their child to be racist probably ain’t very good parents….