The MPs were particularly scathing about damage done to white children's state of mind by the trendy phrase 'white privilege'. Of course, this is not a zero-sum game, whereby non-white advancement must come at the disadvantage of white children. Until we break the intergenerational cycle of lack of ambition, poorer white children will still fail. Race campaigners say white privilege is the everyday benefit white people enjoy over other ethnicities due to systemic racism. And Labour MP Diane Abbott said: 'Their attack on the term white privilege is designed to cause division.

Source: The Nation June 22, 2021 21:56 UTC