It’s snowing today and I should be working, but bike training and snow don’t mix. Still, we can always rely on the Mail to raise the blood pressure.
School PE lessons are racist, according to an astonishing taxpayer-funded study.
Teaching children to play football, rugby, cricket, netball and rounders favours ‘privileged’ white students, the politically correct 20-page report claims.
What? Seriously?
The research, which was criticised last night as ‘ludicrous’ and ‘patronising’ by a top black footballer, says sports that have been taught in schools for generations hark back to Britain’s colonial past and make ‘whiteness’ the norm.
We are into Poe’s Law territory here. That said, I detested PE lessons when I was at school. It instilled in me a lifelong loathing of ball games and team games generally, so I’m not sure it reinforced any white privilege in me. This is the usual Cultural Marxist bollocks and, worse, we are being forced to fund it.
Its authors, who were given a grant of nearly £10,000 to examine PE classes in England and Norway, suggest that learning dances from different cultures should be given greater prominence.
I want my money back. It’s difficult to take this guff seriously. And had they done this when I was at school, I’d have grown up detesting dances from different cultures with the same vigour currently reserved for football.
They add that the emphasis in PE on health and fitness could even be imposing Western ideals of how people’s bodies should look.
Tell that to all those black athletes.
They also claim that ‘character-building’ practises such as ‘fair play’ have European roots.
Yes? And? So? They are admirable qualities, wherever they come from. I may have despised PE lessons and I dispute that they built anything, but the basic principles of fair play is something to aspire to and I am proud that I have lived my life seeking to do just that. And if that makes me horribly white, then fuck ’em. I am a white European of British stock and I make no apology for it.
But last night former England football star Les Ferdinand, a black player who is now director of football at Queens Park Rangers, derided the study as ‘ridiculous’.
Can’t argue with that.
Quoting from other research, they say: ‘It is through the monocultural and ahistorical language of discourses of fatness and fitness in schools that young people’s bodies, in subtle ways, are pedagogized to white ideals of the body.’
The report also states that PE is ‘constructed as a predominantly white, unmarked space’.
One for Pseud’s Corner. Risible bollocks from start to finish.
‘pedagogized’ WTF? Saints preserve us from this ridiculous use of language. I used to write papers for learned journals; scientific papers with scientific terms but the rest was plain English in terms of how such papers were written (as in stilted, nineteenth century type English). But no-one in their right mind would convert the noun pedagogue into a verb. Some people should be given a good thrashing.
Professor Anne Flintoff, oxygen and tax thief at a fourth rate poly:
http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/professor-anne-flintoff/
And clearly someone who hates English culture.
It’s just “The Emperor’s New Clothes” again: pretentious pseudo-intellectual claptrap.
Much as I dislike ball based field sports, they have spread to every part of the world in a way that has completely ignored issues of culture and race. I suppose colonialism and the existence of the British Empire helped them to spread, this is true particularly of cricket. But mainly these games have been taken up by other cultures on their own merits, lots of people like to play and to watch these games. On the other hand, dances from different cultures are of interest to hardly anyone outside those cultures and probably few within those cultures either.
I’m pretty unconvinced about the merits of PE and sport in schools. I discovered sport for myself after I left school, being forced to do stuff that I didn’t want to had a negative effect on me.
As for this alleged study, it appears that a bunch of stupid lefties with an axe to grind have force fitted the results of whatever research they did to suit their risible agenda.
My schools didn’t do Judo or archery, so like you my sporting activities were extra curricular and more individual than team oriented.
My current passion is doing triathlons, particularly the very long ones. I also enter running events of varying distances. I’m never going to be first over the line but that isn’t the point. What you are trying to do is improve your own personal performance, either by doing a distance that you have done before in a quicker time, or by doing a more challenging distance than you have done before.
If we must have PE in schools I think that much could be learned from the parkrun format. The runs are timed electronically and the results are compiled on the parkrun website. Once you have registered and taken part you have your own page that logs your progress and has a table of stats that you can refer to in order to track your progress. No matter how rubbish you are you can still see yourself improving and to me that is the part that matters.
+1 on detesting football, all my bike & car enthusiast friends do too. Dancing – No Thanks.
As for the “study” – sack all involved in suggesting & authorising it – much more than the £10,000 wasted.
Yeah it seems to be a petrolhead thing. I saw a Tee shirt once – unlike football, bikes require two balls 😉
‘It is through the monocultural and ahistorical language of discourses of fatness and fitness in schools that young people’s bodies, in subtle ways, are pedagogized to white ideals of the body.’
A bigger load of absolute and total bullshit I have never read. It is truly a masterpiece of bovine excreta.
Christ on a bike, LR I permitted myself to link to you from http://www.homoitalicus.it/2018/03/20/are-we-there-yet/
Just as peak oil is still a long way off, I suspect peak cuntery is also. One should never underestimate the ability of leftards to surpass one another with arguments utterly devoid of logic and common sense.