Thread by @DJLdistraction

“This government stands unequivocally against Critical Race Theory”. 😳
It’s not just Trump: the Tories are every bit as extreme in their attacks on legitimate and profoundly important academic work. I really am a bit speechless...
#CriticalRaceTheory

I can’t get over this. #CriticalRaceTheory as an “ideology”. Fuck off. And #BLM denigrated as “political”: OF COURSE IT’S FUCKING POLITICAL.
#ToriesOut

FWIW, this is the Under-Secretary of State for *Equalities*... 🤦‍♂️

...who in singing the praises of Baroness Valarie Amos as a trail-blazing black woman, referred to SOAS as the “School of African and Oriental Studies”...which doesn’t speak well of a basic understanding of acronyms, but hey, we all misspeak on occasion...

...but she was presumably not misspeaking when she said, “Our curriculum does not need to be decolonised, for the simple reason that it is not colonised.” 🤦‍♂️ (whatever the fuck that’s meant to mean...Rule Britannia?) #CriticalRaceTheory #decolonisethecurriculum

Not, when threatening teachers:
“Let me be clear that any school that teaches those elements of critical race theory as fact, or that promotes partisan political views such as defunding the police without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law.”

“Our” police aren’t like America’s police: they’re mostly unarmed, an operate “on the principle of policing by consent” — another perfect example of that classic British delusion, that serious racism is a US problem, we would never be like that... 🤦‍♂️

QED: “From the Windrush generation to the Somali diaspora, it is a story that is uniquely ours. If we forget that story and replace it with an imported Americanised narrative of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow...” I cant even...

Truly, sickeningly brazen: “If Opposition Members want to implement their race equality strategy, they should go ahead and win an election.” 🤮

Because of course, racial equality should only be permissible or legitimised via majority rule...

Anyway, I’m done. This was the government minister in a #BlackHistoryMonth debate on decolonising the curriculum, coming out attacking #CriticalRaceTheory as “ideology” and #BLM as “political”. The transcript is on Hansard (closing the debate)

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-1…

Apropos of nothing at all...: 🙄

https://twitter.com/thatciviltweet/status/1318632679412277256?s=21

Of course, there were many great speeches in the #BlackHistoryMonth debate:

https://twitter.com/chionwurah/status/1318594560960888834?s=21

And this! #BHMdebate #BlackHistoryMonth

https://twitter.com/bellribeiroaddy/status/1318631540570624002?s=21

But the danger — the real, ideological, political and yes existential danger — comes from the Government, with their blatant threats against school teachers covering #BLM and their open antipathy towards #CriticalRaceTheory 😡

Of course, Badenoch and the govt have their cheerleaders... 🤦‍♂️

https://twitter.com/calvinrobinson/status/1318624835937931265?s=21

The minister could do with taking some classes with @KojoKoram! On #CriticalRaceTheory 👇

https://twitter.com/KojoKoram/status/1318864376288432128

Seriously... pure bogey-man/straw-man rhetoric, but deployed to positively dangerous effect...
#whosafraidofCRT 😏🤷‍♂️

https://twitter.com/JohnCNarayan/status/1318685953054150657