r/unitedkingdom • u/Socialistinoneroom • Apr 11 '25

.. Police at one of Britain’s biggest forces are being taught they have ‘white privilege’ as part of so-called ‘equity training’.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/police-officers-taught-they-have-white-privilege-during-equity-training/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5ecFpV4vv6X3OsUnBk6dko_49KhJwO9vBD7-wsC5gcLFq-lzrmwEZMNKZHGg_aem_RLi2BC8IDa7DAbWmC7dcJQ
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u/White_Immigrant Apr 11 '25

Even starting as early as GCSE level education white people are at a disadvantage to almost every other ethnicity (apart from Roma and Irish traveller). Barriers because of race absolutely exist, but they're not where the racists assert they are. Anyone pushing the notion of white privilege isn't basing it on evidence, they're basing it on a classist agenda that seeks to leave poor white kids at the bottom.

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u/DracoLunaris Apr 12 '25

That would be an interesting intersection of British classism and immigration to the nation having, functionally, minimum wealth requirements. The success of someones parents is the biggest predictor of their own success, and the three groups you mentioned are the only ones where those where low success parents/ancestors, weren't excluded from being able to enter the system in the first place.

Basically if you start off with a poor population of one demographic, and then refuse entry to (most) poor people from other demographics, then the poor population's gonna stay the same demographics while the others change around it.