{"id":952989,"date":"2021-11-02T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952989"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:43:51","slug":"uk-civil-servants-advised-to-read-anti-racist-books-by-ibram-x-kendi-robin-diangelo-to-fight-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-civil-servants-advised-to-read-anti-racist-books-by-ibram-x-kendi-robin-diangelo-to-fight-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Civil Servants Advised to Read &#039;Anti-Racist&#039; Books by Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo to Fight &#039;White Privilege&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-civil-servants-advised-to-read-anti-racist-books-by-ibram-x-kendi-robin-diangelo-to-fight-white-privilege%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952989&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1217459445-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Employees of Britain\u2019s Civil Service, the supposedly politically neutral state bureaucracy, have been sent woke reading lists including works by prominent figures in the Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement, to foster an \u201canti-racist\u201d environment.<\/p>\n<p>Civil servants, who remain in place regardless of which political party holds power, have been advised to read CRT staples by far-left American activists such as <em>White Fragility<\/em> by Robin DiAngelo and <em>How to Be an Anti Racist<\/em> by Ibram X. Kendi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The list, which was compiled by the Civil Service Race Forum, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10148151\/White-civil-servants-told-confront-privilege-woke-reading-list.html\">leaked<\/a> by a whistleblower in the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is responsible for Britain\u2019s notoriously unreliable immigration estimates, to the <em>Mail on Sunday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Guidance issued alongside the suggested books stated: \u201cThis list of resources is intended to help white people gain a deeper understanding of racism and the anti-racist work that needs to be done. To be anti-racist is to be actively opposed to racism. It means confronting our white privilege and admitting our place in a system of oppression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all (un)learning at our own pace. But when the consequences of our ignorance are bound up in the continued discrimination, violence, and murders of Black people, we must work harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The reading list also includes works by leftist British academics, including Paul Gilroy\u2019s <em>There Ain\u2019t No Black In The Union Jack<\/em> and <em>Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats<\/em> by Dr Maya Goodfellow.<\/p>\n<p>Books and articles calling for the abolition of police and prisons were also included on the list, as well as works defending looting.<\/p>\n<p>An ONS spokesman claimed that the reading list did not represent \u201cofficial guidance\u201d from the government but added that \u201cas an inclusive employer, we encourage the sharing of ideas and respectful open discussion but will take action should concerns be raised.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3540145985401\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ve been told off in the [Westminster] tea room for referring to \u2018my wife\u2019 because that\u2019s \u2018possessive\u2019. By a Conservative MP, actually. But that\u2019s the state of the world.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dssrO5Hite\">https:\/\/t.co\/dssrO5Hite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1309924951034535936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the Conservative Party-led government supposedly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2020\/12\/14\/exclusive-unconscious-bias-training-scrapped-review-finds-has\/\">banned<\/a> unconscious bias training for civil servants last year, the practice has seemingly continued, with the Cabinet Office conducting classes for civil servants on the ills of microaggressions and politically correct language codes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Powerpoint slides and handouts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/10\/30\/civil-servants-told-not-use-black-mark-alleged-slavery-links\/\">shared<\/a> with <em>The Telegraph<\/em> show that the ideological courses were still being conducted in October.<\/p>\n<p>The classes were reportedly being led by the so-called Race Lead at the Cabinet Office, Muz Ali, alongside alleged experts from outside government. Civil servants were instructed to avoid terms such as \u201clynch mob \/ black mark \/ sold down the river\u201d due to their supposed connections to slavery.<\/p>\n<p>However, the term \u2018black mark\u2019, meaning a strike against someone for having done something wrong, seemingly has no connection to the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>In the workshop, bureaucrats are also told not to use stereotypes of \u201claid-back Jamaicans\u201d, BAME or BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) as a noun, or the word Oriental, as they generalise about minority groups.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the spread of woke ideology throughout the civil service, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, Toby Young, said: \u201cThe Government has been quite good at curbing some of the most egregious woke gobbledegook in Whitehall, but in these quangos and arms-length bodies it\u2019s completely out of control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you push back in any way against the cult of equity, diversity and inclusion, you can expect to be disciplined or fired \u2013 and joking about it is the gravest sin of all in the eyes of the humourless enforcers of woke dogma.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0540540540541\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report: Britain\u2019s \u2018Neutral\u2019 Civil Service Infested with Radical Ideas on \u2018Tackling Whiteness\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UDJXCZRHrt\">https:\/\/t.co\/UDJXCZRHrt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1302887580095205378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of Britain\u2019s Civil Service, the supposedly politically neutral state bureaucracy, have been sent woke reading lists including works by prominent figures in the Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement, to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}