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Oh really, @1Hildegarde? Just to be clear: are you saying that you are unaware that the NCCA specifically sought to include the concept of “white privilege” in the curriculum? Does this mean the NCCA is operating without ministerial oversight, despite being accountable to the Department of Education?

In August 2024, the NCCA published a Specification for Quotations seeking a team to undertake a review of the literature on Intercultural Education to inform the development of their new whole-school toolkit. It asked for the inclusion of white privilege.

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This is absolutely asinine. It will be the nail in the coffin for the GAA if they do this.

I have two teenage boys that play sport, including GAA, and they live for the competition. Take the competition out of the game and you remove all enjoyment.

White virtue signalling academics seeking a black avatar create and prop up people like Joseph.

Kathleen Lynch of UCD has "dedicated her life's work to bringing critical race theory into the cultural and academic landscape of Ireland."

Lynch was Ebun Joseph's academic advisor and helped her set up the first ever Black Studies course in Ireland.

Lynch has also been advocating for a very long time for the politicisation of education. See her keynote speech at the 4th SPHE Network Conference below.

The enemy is inside the house, as they say.

Very well said.

Thanks to @mullallyelaine for having me on for a chat!

Just to clarify - "woke" means being awake to or having awareness of the intersecting systems of oppression that the various critical theories claim operate within our society to create inequality (white supremacy, patriarchy, cisnormativity, heterosexism, Eurocentrism, ableism, adultism etc). All of society, including our institutions, media, law, education, social norms etc are allegedly shaped by these systems of oppression and function to privilege certain (dominant) identity groups while marginalising and oppressing others. If you are white, male, European, Christian, heterosexual, cisgender, able bodied... and on and on and on - you are said to be granted unearned advantages and power purely on the basis of those identity characteristics. If you do not work to tear down these supposed systems, then you are accused of being complicit in the oppression of minority groups.

So when someone says something is "woke" they're usually identifying something which is a product of the application of the above beliefs. Flying the trans flag in schools is woke because it's an attempt to disrupt cisnormativity (peoples biological sex matching their "gender" is normal). Race-swapping a historical character in a movie is woke because it is intended to challenge and disrupt white supremacy.

The type of education I speak about in this podcast aims to foster critical consciousness (a woke worldview) in children. That is, it's attempting to get pupils to see the world as structured by these systems of oppression, to see this as the source of all inequality, and to motivate them to engage in activism in an attempt to redistribute power and privileges from groups deemed dominant, toward groups deemed marginalised.

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