Irish White Privilege......Yeah

Let me spell this out for you.

The State should have no part in deciding who should feel shame/privilege or whatever the ideologues of the day decide what is sinful. The last time we allowed that, tens of thousands of young boys were abused in classrooms all over this country, those abusers were protected by the State, Political class and media.

If you want to beat the notion of privilege into your kids, off with you, leave everyone else's kid alone.

No, it’s not about treating people badly but it’s more than rich that someone from a country that is far more racist than Ireland cries that Ireland is racist.

We are not a colonial power we were colonised. Eight hundred years of occupation, a famine, one third of our population dead one third forced to emigrate to America where they were given nothing and had to work for everything. I grew up in the eighties, we were poor. I went to college and worked to pay for it. I got a job and paid for everything myself. I won’t have someone else’s guilt pressed on me.

Yeah but you're doing that thing that people like to do on stuff like this where you say "listen to what some of the ones are saying" — and you'll point us to some activist who thinks white people should be taxed higher as penance for slavery in the US or some guff like that. Yes, there are people who have an overly zealous view of privilege — but then again there are people who are zealous racists too, right? The fact that either side on the more hardline ends of the spectrum exists does not mean there isn't a space in between where beneficial reason can be found.

Also, why should telling a child they are privileged in a certain way make them feel ashamed? Who is implying it? Some activist? A journalist at the Guardian? Some Trinity blogger? The reality is that the none of those people tend to ever actually be reflective of wider society — a society where I can recognise (for example) that growing up heterosexual came with conscious and subconscious privilege that my gay peers didn't have without any feeling of being ashamed that I'm straight.

Most Irish teachers — knowing a lot of them myself as both the son of a teacher and the partner of a teacher — are not radical activists. They tend to be normal quiet people who aren't on some ideological crusade. The discussion on privilege isn't defined by the loudmouths just because you possibly have only tended to listen to the loudmouths.

Yes.

Healthcare while far from perfect it ranks 23/167 in the world: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376359/health-and-health-system-ranking-of-countries-worldwide/

There is no real poverty in Ireland. For real poverty have a look at the image I posted. Housing problems can be solved, and they will be.

Seriously? Those kids are bare feet in the dirt, and that's in a classroom, not out on a field. Our kinds get free hot meals in school now, what are you on about? Even the worst prefab classroom in Ireland is heaven compared to what those kids are getting. And that's even before we think about what happens in those places, famine wars and genocides. We and our kids are incredibly privileged to be living in Ireland.

I mean, by that logic, most members of the British royal family are less privileged than many people who grew up in a sink housing estate, as long as they had parents that loved them.

There's really not a lot of point in me trying to explain what nonsense that is, if you can't see it already.

Shame/Sin/Privilege, it's all the same, it's a religion. Who the f##k are you to tell a small little child that isn't yours that they are privileged because of the colour of their skin and should somehow repent, because that is the real purpose of preaching this nonsense to kids, to make them repent, to make them acquiesce. Kids who would have been pals will be divided by this garbage.

Let the parents handle the teaching of life's nuances to their child. Bigots have no business in a child's classroom.

So what are you proposing as a personal attonement for the circumstances these less well off kids? A 2 hour fast and a large financial transfer to your favourite charities? Or maybe going on Boards and displaying your compassion for those poor foreign kids from your comfortable abode is enough to assuage this guilt.

Repent? For what?

Acquiesce? To what?

I mean, you're the guy talking about "listen to what some people say" and yet here you are giving me this God awful "who the f**k are you" stuff and talking about bigots in classrooms. If I'm being honest, sounds like you're more influenced by the radical left view than I am!

Why would teaching a child to understand the different lived experience of their classmates somehow make them enemies?

Exactly the whole privilege issue is pure nonsense and as said before imported here from the States and has no place or relevance in this country.

Ehh, why should they do that?