Racist toddlers

The National Children's Bureau have issued a guide, Young Children and Racial Justice, all 336 pages of it. This government sponsored report warns, amongst other things, that: "A child may react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying, 'Yuck!"'. That may indicate a lack of familiarity with that particular food, or "more seriously a reaction to a food associated with people from a particular ethnic or cultural community".

Oh well done, a toddler can be branded as a "racist" for not liking spicy food and saying so. What rubbish; there are plenty of racists who enjoy going out for a curry on a Friday night and making their waiter's life hell, just as there are plenty of people I know who just can't tolerate spicy food but are definitely not racists. The totalitarian thought-police inexorably advance. Education is no longer about education it is about social engineering.

Of course it should come as no surprise that "targets" are involved as I learnt elsewhere that

"Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council."

The more instances reported, the more racism support officers and re-education consultants will be required in each local council, all with their own targets to reduce re-offending and .... I am sorry but I can write no more about this matter, it is just too depressing.