Andrew Bolt: Teaching white kids they’re oppressors helps no one

A children’s book being offered to schools and described as “empowering” offers the kind of race baiting that will tear us apart.

Teaching white children they’re racist oppressors, and teaching non-white children they’re just victims of whites helps no one.

Better check the books your child is reading at school. They could now be learning how to be a modern racist.

Scholastic Australia is offering schools a book that our Children’s Book Council praises as “empowering” and a “positive read for the classroom or family home”.

It’s My Skin, Your Skin, which a teacher alerted me to last week, stunned by its anti-white racism.

I’m not surprised. It actually teaches that “racism started a long time ago when white people wanted to have more control over other people who were not white”.

This is not just racist but completely false. The ancient Egyptians had slaves. Africans had slaves. The Babylonians enslaved the Jews.

In fact, the word “slave” is believed to be derived from “Slav”, after Slavic peoples were made slaves by the Byzantines, who occupied what’s now Turkey, and by the Arab rulers of Spain.

But what are facts to the modern racebaiter? My Skin, Your Skin ploughs on: “Racism is about the way that things are done to stop people who are not white from being equal”.

It adds that “an example of racism is when white people think they are better than people from other races”. In fact, its only examples of racism are of whites being mean to non-whites.

Yet look at probably the worst racism now screaming in our faces: China’s Han rulers imprisoning up to a million Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps as they try to wipe out Uyghur culture.

A social worker told boys at Parkdale Secondary College they were ‘oppressors’ if they were white, male and Christian. Picture: O'Brien Real Estate

My Skin, Your Skin isn’t just some outlier – some bizarre book that somehow sneaked in without anyone noticing.

For one, author Laura Henry-Allain was actually given an MBE for her work in shaping young minds.

For another, anti-white racism has now become – along with anti-“Zionism” – the racism that makes you chic.

The NSW Education Department even devised an online race sensitivity course – “Racism No Way” – that claimed Australia was riddled with “institutional racism”, with racist schools just reflecting “white middle-class values”, and included a film arguing that to be born white means “you’re out here winning”, even though many white children are poor and not winning anything.

In Melbourne, a social worker told boys at Parkdale Secondary College they were “oppressors” if they were white, male and Christian.

This is poison. Teaching white children – even the kindest or the poorest – they’re racist oppressors, and teaching non-white children they’re just victims of whites helps no one. But it will tear us apart.