When Do We Have White Privilege?

A Christian nurse has claimed the National Health Service (NHS) is “forcing racist ideology” on students, in the first case of its kind.
Amy Gallagher, 33, is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust alleging discrimination on the basis of race, religion and philosophical belief, as well as victimisation and harassment.
The mental health nurse, who is in the final stages of a two-year course in forensic psychology at the trust, objected to a lecture titled “whiteness – a problem of our time” in Oct 2020, where attendees were forced to confront “the reality of white privilege”.
In another race lecture the following month, Ms Gallagher claimed she was told that “Christianity is racist because it is European” by a talk leader.
The case escalated in March this year when an external speaker at the trust complained to the Nursing and Midwifery Council, alleging that Ms Gallagher could not work with “diverse populations” and had “inflicted race-based harm”.
Paul Jenkins, chief executive of the trust, told her that it “has committed itself to an explicit ambition of becoming an anti-racist organisation”.
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The only White Privilege I ever had was having the SKILLS to qualify for the job.Almost 13 Years of school didn`t give me any pivilege. Skills either.
I learned welding by taking private lessons at a shop. Paid for it with an acetylene outfit I didn`t know how to use. But I learned. Then I went to work for the Caterpillar Tractor factory. Became an exellent welder.
While there, I studied Economics – Commodity Futures; NOT taught in any school. Self-taught in technical analysis.Which allowed me to BE self-employed. Became Successful, I went to work at Paine Webber managing accounts. Age 28.
Then moved and started my own trucking company. Successful for 10 years.Practically self-taught and fully self-financed.
Wanted to become a machinist. Studied the books and BOUGHT the tools to learn – very expensive! Practice – practice!
Built two custom homes; my designs, self-taught. All these skills led to more jobs;
My boss had me restore and get running an antique 1941 Hyster forklift! I had to make parts for it; Handy little machine!
Machined a new reciever and other parts for the 1928; A challenge and victory for me.
NOT “privilege” but hard work and using my brains made it all possible.
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The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) put up posters encouraging students to “check their privilege” using a list of privileges such as “Christian,” “White,” “Heterosexual” and “Male.”
Meanwhile, B.C.’s School District 74 put up posters featuring school administration officials highlighting their own encounters with racism and privilege.
In one, district superintendent Teresa Downs stands next to a quote reading, “I have unfairly benefitted from the colour of my skin. White privilege is not acceptable.”
In another, district principal of Aboriginal education Tammy Mountain appears next to the quote, “I have felt racism. Have you?”
In the case of UOIT, the posters appear to have been quickly taken down after attracting online scorn.
“I fit the bill for almost every single category yet the promoters have no idea whether or not I’ve had ‘unearned access to social power’ because of this,” wrote one critic on the Facebook page of UOIT Student Life, the department that created the posters. …
In B.C., meanwhile, a local CBC report quoted Kansas Field Allen, a parent who had taken to Facebook to complain that by encouraging students to be extra cognizant of racial identity, the School District 74 posters were sowing racial division.
“I’d say 95 per cent of the people are in favour of having the posters taken down, and that’s from all races,” she said.
Online discussions of the posters quickly descended into ugliness. One pro-poster commenter was targeted by private messages reading “it’s hilarious when you talk about white privilege when you walk around with a status card.”
Field Allen, in turn, reported being berated for raising “white racist children.”
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