Here is the link to the ACT part website with David Seymour's press release.https://www.act.org.nz/schoolkids_being_taught_about_white_privilege.
I am hardly a fan of the ACT Party but the article in the above link makes a point.
The "White Privilege" dogma emanates from US universities critical theory dogma and has
entered mainstream US public discourse. It was only a matter of time
before the NZ left and the Labour Government were "colonised" by US-made American Marxism.
The teaching of this theory in schools has been a contested issue
with some states banning the teaching of it. The opposition has come
from across the racial divide
eg.https://rumble.com/vgxaad-black-mom-delivers-scorching-takedown-of-critical-race-theory-at-school-boa.html.
Some members of the French intelligentsia is also complaining of
United States university colonisation in terms of non-gender language.
This is a bit rich given that France has given the US academic world- and
thereby us in NZ the toxic Michel Foucault.
A Marxist keyword is present: 'decolonise'. But the race "issue is
not the issue." It is the blind or bluff for the real issue, the change
of regime. American Marxism also known as Progressivism ha a start
under Herbert D Croly and Woodrow Wilson as President gave it impetus
and it flavoured FDR's regime and the dalliance with the then Societ
Union where Brins Trust members had in the 1920s been hosted by Stalin.
In the latter 20th C names such as Cloward and Piven and Saul Alinsky
(both Hillary Clinton and Obama wrote papers on Alinsky).
Alinsky- a community organiser (a title Obama had) famous book was
Rules for Radicals. Its techniques are once known can be seen. One of
his techniques:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize
it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go
after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than
institutions. (This is cruel but very effective. Direct, personalized
criticism and ridicule works.)
In this one can see the effectiveness of the campaign again Trump,
the MO of cancel culture and the effectiveness of slurs such as "racist"
and "fascist". Alinsky is famous for the comment 'never let a crisis
go to waste.
Again his advice:
The organizer's first job is to create the issues or
problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer
must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan
the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt
expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid
them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough
to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.
The doctrine is divisive and undermines attempts at maintaining 'concord' and a functioning civil society.
American Marxism's arrival on our shores and its embrace by the
Ministry of Education does not augur well. Good intentions are how
useful idiots are inducted.
Funnily enough, there is a great deal of sad irony in the fact that
Marxists never ever contemplate that they have been intellectually
colonised by a 19thC European journalist, whose thinking went back into
18thC, an exiled German who was a resentful malcontent and racist if
not sexist, called Karl Marx.
