Irish White Privilege......Yeah

Who bolts monitors to the desk? That makes no sense!

Sorry to hear of your sight in one eye. I do mean that.

Still has nothing to do with this thread.

I'm a middle aged, white Irish male. Working class (hate that term) background. You can count the amount of **** without fingers I give about complaining about people who don't choose to better themselves and complain or are privileged people who don't have a worry and chat about their activism over an expensive bottle wine.

It's parenting full stop. Teachers aren't parents. Deis schools have resources I could only dream about. I'm sending my youngest to a school that's cost me a fortune to get that level of facilities.

I didn't get a boost up in my life because I'm a white Irish male.

Not at all, the next logical step is to develop processes which reduce the barriers which other people may experience which aren’t an issue for you, and by that same token other people who are equally exposed to the concept will develop processes which reduce the barriers you may experience due to barriers which are issues for you!

Reciprocity if you like, rather than enabling people playing the victim.

Never said I went to a deis school.

Please explain your overall point. I'm curious. So disadvantage areas get more money without characterisations of skin colour, nationality or sex? I'd hope so.

Nope. Education starts at home not with a new AstroTurf pitch. It's optics and a money grab.

I agree with you that education starts in the home, but that has nothing to do with the a school receiving funds to construct an astroturf pitch. Optics would be receiving funding for a digital whiteboard at a cost of about €8k for one that’s all bells and whistles, now that’s a total cash grab! 😂

Would I wish to deprive them of it though? Much as I think it’s overkill, I’m just not that petty really, it’s a small thing in the grand scheme of things. Same with the astroturf pitch - I’d imagine it could be justified in terms of providing the children with opportunities for physical education.

If you want to see privileged, have a look at what punishment all these people will get for this. None I bet. But if you or I attacked someones house like this they would lock us up and throw away the key. I doubt very much anything will happen to these guys.

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I see UCD is signing a anti-racism comment in September. Part of the document lists a commitment to race equality across students and staff. I don't know what this means. How do they propose they bench mark it? Whatever about students, but the idea that UCD staff should match the proportion of black people in Ireland is ludricious. You wont be finding many senior academics in many fields from the Irish black population. Sure you can find them from the global population but that would exactly be breaking these (imaginary) glass ceilings.

Will you stop.

You know exactly what I was saying.

Funding is not an issue for deis schools. No issues here with extra dosh to give a leg up. Happy about it in fact...if it works.

Your posts are not as smart as you think they are. Bit of gaslighting thrown in for good measure. 👍

Apologies so.

It has to come from home though. I know quite a few teachers there who are at their wits end. They care, but what can you do?

A great initiative is the TAP programme (trinity access programme). Seems to work very well.

Even if it’s “good intentions”, you can see how promoting and encouraging people to think of themselves more so as an ethnic or tribal group within a country, rather than a common national identity can lead to troubles down the road.

especially when certain groups are identified as having “privilege”, basically having favoured status, needing some sort of remediation. leading to resentments on all sides, who will perceive discrimination against the identity they belong to (are have been assigned to).

That's exactly what somebody with white Irish privilege would say.

its hard to tell reality from parody in 2023

The more honest reply would have been "white women look fvcking stupid with braids you gobsh1te".

Worries are small these days in school if someone gets all outraged over a white girl wearing braids.

Bog bodies have been fouund with braided hairstyles dating from the Iron Age so its not as if big bad whitey has been stealing any ideas from Africans.

We are raising a generation of kids who will be afraid to do anything in case someone gets offended.

Sir, this is a McDonalds.

Norma Foley gives her view on the draft curriculum...

Can literally see her cheeks going red answering the question. If the draft said what she said, people would most likely agree with her.

Between white Irish who grew up in the poor Ireland of the 80s and white eastern Europeans who grew up in the poor parts of Europe the blacks who are born and raised in Ireland are the ones that are privileged.

Change my mind.

These people are completely nuts, you'd often wonder what bloody planet are they living on.

Thats a fantastic list of idiots people should avoid voting for in the next GE. To think with the salaries they are on and the issues this country has, that they are wasting valuable Dail Chamber time on absolute nonsense.

It makes the Dail look like an infants class, maybe someone should have handed them some Play-Doe or some colouring books and crayons.

No wonder the country is in such a mess if that is the level of discussion being had regarding the running of the country.