HMG is cancelling unconscious bias training.
“Unconscious bias training” is being scrapped for civil servants in England, with ministers saying it does not work.
The training, intended to tackle patterns of discrimination and prejudice, is used in many workplaces.
The government says there is no evidence it changes attitudes – and is urging other public sector employers to end this type of training.
This is excellent news. Such “training” is nothing more than woo. Nasty, vile, divisive, racist woo at that. The people who peddle it are the same kind of charlatans who used sell snake oil. Although, I tend to dispute that it doesn’t change attitudes. The very existence of this blight has certainly changed mine. I really didn’t care about the colour of someone’s skin or what they kept in their underpants or who they went to bed with. But now, with the level of screeching, hysterical activism that keeps telling me I’m a bad person because of the above, yes, my attitude has changed.
But race equality campaigner Halima Begum said the government “mustn’t backtrack on anti-racism training”.
Says the grifter upon seeing the gravy train hit the buffers.
Lucille Thirlby, assistant general secretary of the FDA civil servants’ union, called on ministers to say “what are you going to replace it with”.
The correct answer is: “Nothing. Nothing at all. Pack your bags and clear off out of it and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
“How will they ensure people are not discriminated against? It’s easier to attack something than do something positive about it,” she said.
They just did.
Of course it won’t work – beyond frontline staff (the poor bloody infantry) most civil servants seem unconscious, probably are unconscious, and will generally remain unconscious.
Presumably Halima Begum thinks that we think badly of her because of racial bias, unconscious or otherwise. In fact we think badly of her because she is a charlatan and a parasite who should get a real job. She should reflect on the fact that people like her give ethnic minorities a very bad reputation that means that quite a lot of so called racial prejudice is entirely justified.
Yes, my attitude has changed too
I no longer look at black/brown people as ‘just another person’ – I’m now distrustful and suspicious of them
LGBTxyz is doing same, hence the split and one group now LGB only
Some good news
I’ve never cared what people’s personal preferences are but I really object to having to ‘celebrate’ LGBT: they’re always telling us that they’re ‘born this way’ so what is there to celebrate, we don’t have straight pride marches and I’ve taken offence at being told that I’m a racist if I don’t show evidence that I’m not.
Yes, indeed. I flatly refuse to celebrate their choices and lifestyles. I tolerate it. That is sufficient. As for the accusation of racist, not only is it loaded so that you can’t win whatever you say, it’s also lost its sting. So, yeah, I’m a racist. Get over it.
It’s long been my view that the overuse and inappropriate use of the word ‘racist’ as a snarl word used in order to shut down debate is a dangerous thing. When so much effort is expended on accusing those who are not racist of being racist the word loses a great deal of its power.
People, such as yourself say ‘so what’ when confronted with some Lefty screaming racist in our faces whereas in the past such an accusation might have actually meant something, now it means nothing expect that the Lefty uses it because he or she doesn’t like their opponents views. What worries me is that one day there may be a genuine racist who appears and who may genuinely warrant being called a racist and the word will be used accurately but nobody will believe it as the word has been devalued.