Irish White Privilege......Yeah

They’re not, because they’re public representatives, so they take all the shìt that’s coming their way, precisely because they act as a target for it.

This IS different because it has nothing to do with politicians, the stakeholders involved who contribute to the draft curriculum aren’t public representatives, they’re individuals and private organisations, lobby groups, committees, charities, members of Irish society that you won’t see in the national media, trying to create the type of society in which their interests are represented in policies such as those relating to education.

A draft curriculum shouldn’t be taken as meaning that it actually has a hope of being implemented, because it’s not the final published document and could go through several more drafts before being implemented in the curriculum, let alone being delivered in Irish schools.

Wouldn’t be the first time the NCCA were told their ideas need a bit more work -

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/churchs-backlash-blocks-change-in-religion-classes/35249798.html

The bit that makes me laugh is putting all this under "Allyship Skills".

If I'm born a white cis straight Irish male then why on Earth would I want to be an ally to people who absolutely despise me and spend a decent amount of their time demonizing myself and people like me?

I'm not going to be an "ally" to groups that aren't shy about the fact that they don't like me based on characteristics that I can't change. Oh but if I grovel to them and pledge myself to their worldview they'll go relatively easy on me?

It's just a spoiled brat ideology. You need to help me and be an ally to me but also I hate everything about you. It's like we just want to teach young people that they need to aggressively demand things and if people won't do what you want and support you then just play the appropriate phobe or ism card to force the issue. Don't even think about being kind or seeking out mutual benefits or compromises. Actually just go around saying "be kind" a lot while also being a horrible person.

It'll be very interesting to see how all this plays out over the next few decades.

Our new High Priests and Bishops, same as the old it would seem. "Here's our new 'original sin' doctrine with which we will beat you into submission".

That is because the new goal is not 'equality' but 'equity'. However, they can't diminish your rights and elevate those of others above yours without demonizing you first. The aim of the equity brigage has never been to unite but rather to divide everybody into their own interest groups. How else can they keep the pesants in line if they're not squabbling with each other over the scraps from their masters table?

As the old long dead lefty in me would have said, 'five fingers make a fist'. They however want your metacarpals and phalanges spread across the graveyard of a dead society to ensure that no fist is ever raised against the elites.

It was Aodhán Ó Riordán who made the pasty male comment, and he and Norma wouldn’t see eye to eye on a whole lot.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/children-doing-homework-has-no-value-aodhan-o-riordain-1476971

Yeah, individuals, private organisations, lobby groups committees, charities and member of Irish society ... what you mean are extremely well funded NGOs with an agenda that are side stepping the Irish democratic process by just inserting their views into the legislative and administrative process without bothering with the whole democracy bit that comes before it. There is roughly zero demand from Irish voters for these "allyship" initiatives.

The greatest danger to Irish democracy comes from the NGOs who masquerade as charities or concerned citizens to legitimise their agenda. I saw another poster wonder why all these TDs seem to have the same talking points and sing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to these progressive politics - why it all seems to be copy and pasted from "US" politics. It's because these NGOs essentially groom them and train them. Irish people can vote for whoever they want - the TDs all attend the same NGO training. The whole aim is to have a system of politics without choices. Just new management. And Ireland is just one small sector of the wider issue.

Irish democracy would be greatly served by a total ban on foreign funding of Irish NGOs, both direct and indirectly. But if the control of NGOs on domestic politics was to be seriously threatened in that way it would lead to the overthrow of the government that dared to do it. Look at Georgia, which back in March of this year meekly attempted to require NGO's that were more than 20% foreign funded to identify themselves. That's all - just highlight where the money was coming from. Pure pandemonium ensued, and the democratically elected Georgian government was forced to surrender to the power of the foreign funded NGOs in Georgia.

She got caught trying to spoof her way out of a simple question and failed miserably.

I'm sure she will be quick enough to cry hate speech now

I was going to ask you does Norma Foley strike you as the sort of individual who would cry hate speech, really? But then I figured since you said it she probably does 🤔

She wasn’t spoofing at all, ‘tis Scallan is the spoofer trying to pass himself off as a credible journalist imagining that in 25 years as a teacher, Norma won’t have dealt with the likes of him before 🙄

Again, ‘tis her counterpart in opposition made the pasty male comment, not Norma, and again she would have nothing to do with the draft policies of the NCCA. Scallan was simply out of his depth asking a stupid question that by all rights deserved a stupid answer, but Foley chose to turn it to her advantage instead.

Explain what away? There’s nothing to explain away, just our different interpretation of events is all.

She's someone who's watched too many tweets from the US ,

White male privilege, sure they same two loons can't even tell us what a woman is and yet they are trying to tell us about white male privilege

It's all so tiresome

This kind of bullshit really would lead an awful lot of people to have even less respect for politicians than they already have.I get the feeling that contempt for politicians in general is at an all time high because so many of them seem completely disconnected from what the average person cares about.

Sad thing is it seems like the Political class all seem to think like this and it doesn't appear to matter which party you vote for the woke mind virus comes as part of it which really is a bad sign for democracy in Ireland.

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I definitely feel privileged to have been born in Ireland, with all the opportunities it gave me growing up. When you look at the state of the world and the desperate situations so many are in, I really count myself lucky and I appreciate it more and more as I get older. I could have been born in Palestine or Syria, so for me being born in modern Ireland is like winning the lottery.

The point she is attempting to make is so reductive, essentially every person in the world could argue some other group has some form of privilege.

The reason this country has a degree of privilege is because previous generations worked hard to make the country a better place to live, people should be thankful this has happened but they shouldn't feel guilt for it.

We don't have unearned privilege for simply being white (like Councillor Colette Flynn stated).We have earned privilege because previous generations worked to make this country a better place.

to be fair there are plenty of advantages to being white i've noticed when abroad in certain countries, compared to how others are treated.