
Academic Decolonisation: The Slippery Slope of Dismantling Knowledge
The discourse surrounding academic decolonisation furnishes today’s intellectual and moralistic justifications for racism, argues Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert Although some proponents of ...
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Unravelling the concept of unconscious bias
The concept of unconscious bias is "the child of neoliberalism", argues Jenny Bourne of the Institute of Race Relations. According ...
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The fight to redefine racism
Kelefa Sanneh unpacks the new thinking about race elaborated in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and Robin ...
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Race is not the disadvantage it once was in the UK
Reflecting on her own experience of growing up in an ethnic minority family in the UK, Shabnam Nasimi wonders whether ...
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We need to talk about Black Lives Matter
We should be able to discuss Black Lives Matter critically, argues Andrew Doyle, and not simply assume that its objectives ...
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Racism is a problem, white people are not
Contemporary politics is often driven by "cultural or psychological anxieties", argues Kenan Malik. We need to consider social and structural ...
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When will the trade unions speak up?
A rigid orthodoxy "demands diversity in everything but opinion", says Paul Embery at Unherd. By failing to challenge it, trade ...
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White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of ...
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Opening Pandora’s Box
Teacher and educational researcher Greg Ashman warns that "once you have opened up Pandora’s Box, you cannot put the bad ...
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On ‘White Fragility’
Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller has "a simple message", argues Matt Taibbi: "there is no such thing as a universal human experience, ...
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Stop apologising for cultural appropriation
The concept of "cultural appropriation” has gone from the esoteric academic realm of post-colonial and decolonial studies, to being a ...
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“Can You Really Teach Kids Not To Be Racist?”
“Can you really teach kids not to be racist?” asks Tom Chivers at Unherd: It’s powerful television, and incredibly uncomfortable ...
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The dehumanising condescension of ‘White Fragility’
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, argues John McWhorter, is "the prayer book for what can only be described as a cult": In ...
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Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist
Lloyd Evans recounts his experience of an online training programme designed to teach 'racial sensitivity': I couldn’t help concluding that ...
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We’re facing a tsunami of censorship
"The authoritarian tide is rising", warns Toby Young in the Spectator. It's now "open season on mavericks and dissenters". How ...
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The threat to civil liberties goes way beyond ‘cancel culture’
We are facing a "historic disaster", argues Leigh Phillips writing in Jacobin. Today's so-called progressives "have become indifferent to free ...
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Channel 4 – ‘The School That Tried To End Racism’
Last weekend, I watched both episodes of a Channel 4 documentary called The School That Tried To End Racism which ...
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The problem with identity politics
In this Q&A interview, Asad Haider, author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, reflects on ...
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Keep critical race theory out of the classroom
Re-printed with the kind permission of Spiked. Channel 4’s The School That Tried To End Racism revealed the backwardness of racial thinking ...
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Is unconscious-bias training the new Brain Gym?
More and more people are recommending that unconscious-bias training should be brought into schools to tackle racism. This is a ...
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Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous
Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have ...
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The Tyranny of Groupthink
"Call it 'Wokeness' or 'Groupthink'", what we are seeing the spread of a "virus of ideological conformity", says Josef Joffe ...
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What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?
“What would it mean to ‘decolonise’ the Classics?” asks David Butterfield in The Spectator: Have I really chosen the career ...
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Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism, argues Ella Whelan: It’s this fetishisation of white self hatred ...
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