03/15/2022
Here’s what the Eau Claire Area School District is supposed to be teaching according their website:
Reading and spelling and such. Here is what they're actually teaching: White Privilege ideology:
🌞Good morning! Would you like to start your day with a ’White Privilege Test’ courtesy of the Eau Claire Area School District? Thanks to @iandprior for exposing this woke indoctrination … pic.twitter.com/qwW134bRoz
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) March 15, 2022
I've made these two screenshots into a PDF, here, and scanned the text, below. Links added.
Briefly, this is nonsense, and not only that it’s foreign nonsense. Many of these "privileges" are from some website in a Commonwealth country, probably Canada or the UK, and you can see that in the references to "neighbours," "colour," and "my local MP." (Owing to the American Revolution, Eau Claire Wisconsin does not have a Member of Parliament. )
The White Privilege Test
These questions are based on the White Privilege Test written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the research on White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh.
Please answer Yes or No to the following questions
- If wish to I can arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
- I can be sure that no matter where I move to my neighbours in that location will be pleasant or neutral to me.
- I can go shopping alone and be sure that I won’t be followed or harassed.
- I can turn on the television, open a newspaper and see people of my race widely represented.
- I can go to a museum or art gallery and will see people of my race widely represented in the objects and artworks.
- I can be sure that when told about our national heritage or about 'civilisation' I am shown that people of my colour made it what it is.
- I can be sure that my children will be taught a curriculum which testifies to the existence of their race.
- I can go into a shop and easily find the food, music or clothes which represent my race or fit with my cultural traditions.
- I can go to a hairdresser and be sure that they can cut my hair.
- I can count on my skin colour not to work against the appearance of my financial reliability.
- I can swear, dress scruffily or not answer letters without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, poverty or illiteracy of my race.
- I can speak in public to a powerful male group without putting my race on trial.
- I can do well professionally without being called a credit to my race.
- I am never asked to speak for my entire racial group.
- I can remain oblivious of the language and customs of persons of colour without feeling in my own culture any penalty for such oblivion.
- I can criticize our government and talk about how much I fear its policies and behavior without being seen as a cultural outsider.
- If a police officer stops me I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.
- I can be pretty sure that if I ask to talk to the “person in charge”, I will be facing a person of my own race.
- I can easily buy posters, postcards, picture books, greeting car ds, dolls, toys, and children’s magazines featuring people of my race
- As a child I had access to books where the heroes and protagonists were the same race or colour as me.
- I can go home from most meetings of organizations I belong to feeling somewhat tied in, rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, held at a distance, or feared
- I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co- workers on the job suspect that I got it because of race.
- I can be sure that the gatekeepers in my life such as my boss, my local MP or my landlord are the same colour or race as me.
- I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help the colour of my skin will not work against me.
- I can choose makeup or bandages in flesh colour and have them more or less match my skin.
- At school or university I could be sure that most of my teachers were the same colour or race as me.
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