Will an ignorant, but so-called racist, remark by a child of four be held against them for the rest of their life?
It really is George Orwell’s 1984:-
According to the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties organisation, an estimated 250,000 racist incidents have been reported in schools since 2002. The great majority of these involve playground exchanges, often among children so young that they have no concept of race. Nor, for the most part, does name-calling or joke-telling amount to “racist bullying”; it is rather a function of childlike ignorance that could be dealt with by any teacher with a modicum of common sense.
Yet in the bizarre culture we have created in this country, these “racist incidents” must be recorded and reported to local authorities under the provisions of the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. To what purpose? Is it being suggested that the children who exhibit “racist tendencies” when they are four or five possess what are called “tolerance issues” that have to be corrected?