White disadvantage?

I’m sorry to hear that but it probably explains that chip on your shoulder…

Looks like people are getting the wrong end of the stick here.

The report shows that more help is offered to those in poverty who have a darker skin colour than those with white skin.

The whole premise is to make it equal for all.

Yes the background to this is that people shouldn't be in poverty, but people need to stop focusing on skin colour.

Well, without resorting to what seems to have become the left wing default position of hurling insults at someone, please show me the phrases that make me a 'numpty'.

Sad to say but you have fallen for the dog whistle by Robert Halfon the committee chair. The reports conclusions are just a diversionary tactic from the cause which is poverty.

This cross party report defined working class poor as those on FSM. So these people are on low wages - key point. Second it lumps all white kids together and compares them to non whites without considering location/geography. Non white kids tend to live near city centre and urban areas whilst the white population is more spread out - and crucially the white kids who live on the coasts and northern areas which have been left behind skews the results.

Austerity cuts have hit harder on these coastal towns and norther areas than the cities - its why you have people leaving these areas to move twards the cities.

Look at Robert Halfon voting record - he has voted against cutting funding for local government,

Consistently voted against spending public money to create guaranteed jobs for young people who have spent a long time unemployed
Consistently voted against raising welfare benefits at least in line with prices
Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year
Consistently voted for ending financial support for some 16-19 year olds in training and further education

He has consistently voted against making the lives of the poor white kids better through his support of austerity so has to fabricate a lie to stop the finfer pointing at himself - enter the ludicrous reason of reverse white privilege.

Shame on Halfon but he doesn't care his tactics have worked.
 
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Because my conclusion is the same as that by pretty much every other publication.

Obviously you feel that poor white kids should be disadvantaged and not be afforded opportunities to assist them out of poverty

But it's not - this is a cross party report chaired by Robert Halfon- which is at odds with the Governments own report which puts the main issue - the conclusion of this report is just pathetic culture war dog whistling which I have explained above.
 
This is the hypocrisy- if you want to help poor white kids then why vote for cuts that hurts them the most?

Poor white kids don't perform as well as better off white kids - so their poverty is the main cause. Fix poverty and you can fix the issue- but you would rather run with culture war reference to reverse white privilege as that helps you blame someone else rather than your own voting record.
 
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Because my conclusion is the same as that by pretty much every other publication.
Firstly, I don't believe you've read more than one article on it. You've got form for making things up after all.

Secondly, it's absurd to claim other people are getting the wrong end of the stick when you've grabbed a completely different stick to pontificate about.

But I'm bored of your laziness and intellectual dishonesty, you can have the last word.
 
Firstly, I don't believe you've read more than one article on it. You've got form for making things up after all.

Have I really, exactly what have I made up? I e not lied on here ever. And if I have ever made an error I have always apologised for it. So let's cut the bull poop just because my viewpoint is different to yours. Now run along and find try and find where I have lied.

My opinion is allowed to be different to that of yours, so let's not get down to making it personal and flinging insults. Your just being rediculous and throwing your toys out the pram because I do not agree with you. You seem to take issue that I won't bow down to your self perceived superiority.

I have read more than one article, I posted a link to the publications I have read.

I have not read the report in its entirety, though I have read the bits you posted on here, and the articles on the net, and my conclusion is that to which I've posted.

Sir g is likely right I've not read the previous report and so maybe it does contradict the government's previous report.
 
The attainment gap of poor white kids has been evident for decades - so that was before the term 'white privilege' even was in common use. The committe does not dismiss the conculsions of the previous reports at all - they add in white privilege as a possible reason to muddy the waters and it has worked.

Poor kids perform worse than richer kids irrespective of their colour.

From the report.

Professor Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, told us that “there is not one single factor that can explain the problem. We need a multivariate analysis.”13 Evidence points at interacting issues in all parts of a disadvantaged White child’s life that may cause them to fall behind. These include intergenerational disadvantage,14 geographic inequalities,15 family experience of education,16 disengagement from school,17 through to a policy failure to strategically address their low participation in higher education.
"Professor Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, told us that “there is not one single factor that can explain the
 
A huge factor which has not been considered is the number of single parent households in this report - because children of single parent households do not do as well academically as those from two parents.

That is a way more important issue than the dog whistle of white privliege.

I would hazard a guess that non white poorer kids are in more stable families with two parents than poorer white kids. So what are the major causes in the rise of single parenthood?

But hey lets start a culture war issue and get people riled up.

The politicians are supposed to lead and inform - but they have failed to do that so they want to divide and conquer their own public. Disgusting, shameful and pathetic but unfortunately it's working.
 
The politicians are supposed to lead and inform - but they have failed to do that so they want to divide and conquer their own public. Disgusting, shameful and pathetic but unfortunately it's working.
They do that because they know that 'divide and rule' usually works.

Especially with a dumbed down electorate!
 
^^Spot on.

I had an email once telling me that funding was available for certain cohorts, one of which was white males that are now a targeted minority in need of help in the LA that I work in. Would you call that 'white privilege'?
 
^^Spot on.

I had an email once telling me that funding was available for certain cohorts, one of which was white males that are now a targeted minority in need of help in the LA that I work in. Would you call that 'white privilege'?

White males are a minority?

Has anyone read the report - looks like you haven't.
 

lol - so if is reverese white privilege - why are poor white kids underperforming in 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s

It is disgusting dog whistle politics. Sort out poverty, economic decline in northern areas.
 
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