Can a comrade write a rebuttal to this short fascist video about British education?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0XGVjQtQM
(Can someone make a mirror so we don't give him more views?)
Probably help if you are British yourself.
I think written rebuttals can help people who are interested in making video rebuttals.
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irishtimes.com
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en.wikipedia.org
web.archive.org
twitter.com
I don't have the time at the moment to write up a comprehensive rebuttal, but a brief skim of his video already crops up some errors:
- He literally gets the definition of "gaslighting" wrong. The "UK gaslight" is just a rebuttal to a number of common I.Q./race arguments, based on publicly available data. This isn't gaslighting, which is where you trick someone into denying their own memories by denying that they exist in the first place. For it to be gaslighting, someone would have to be convincing alt-righters that I.Q. statistics don't even exist in the first place.
- He plays fast and loose with numbers and tries to bury unfavourable racial data either by smashing all of the non-whites together to create an artificial "non-white" group with a lower average (as where he cites the firefighter study), or by citing I.Q. studies performed on young children and then assuming that studies performed on children can be applied not only to a general population that includes adults, but to other countries as well
- He flat-out ignores a bunch of competing theories that are evident from within his own damn sources. For instance, there's also a significant gap between people who are monolingual english speakers and people who learned it as a second language. Of course children who aren't native english speakers are going to do worse than kids who are native speakers. He doesn't address the success of mixed-race children of white and black/caribbean parents. And he doesn't address the scores of Irish travellers, who despite being descended from whites themselves have the worst scores of all surveyed groups. One of his own goddamn followers accidentally debunked this video on twitter ahahahaha
Wish I had the time to eviscerate this more finely, but I have skewl in the mornin'. I think Afroplasm might have some additional content that can help you.
Forgot a source on Irish Travellers being descended genetically from white Irish
irishtimes.com
Thanks
Thanks user! I really feel it's a duty to destroy fascist lies and dishonesty about "race realism".
Well unless it is a commonly taught one (French< spanish, sometimes German), you legit cannot do that.
Even then, I had a french mate who did French and got a B (he was dyslexic). Ability to speak a language does not denote the ability to pass it as a MFL; quite the opposite. Most people who speak languages at home do not know them well in an academic context whatsoever. This is known as "Café or Playground [language]". Sure you can speak it but can you /write/ it? Can you read it? For languages that use non-latin scripts, this often tends to be way harder for immigrant children to grasp; since without specific education in that language's literature you will not be able to fudge it.
/rant
hooktube.com
Here you go for an ad free version.
For starters he is wrong, "Asian" does not include Arabs they are filled under the "other" group in census data and the like.
Great. More counterarguments are always appreciated. Do you have, say, an example of a blog or website that discusses what you're talking about? Any kind of sources to call back to? I understand that you shouldn't need to cite sources for basic logic, but having a good-looking source to link back to in order to prove that students can't, for instance, take a G.C.S.E. in their native tongue (I'm Canadian and am not familiar with the U.K. system, sorry) gives an opponent a lot less wiggle room to try and avoid having to engage with the facts and logic behind your arguments.
Also, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to request in the moderation thread that the youtube link in the OP be replaced with this hooktube link to minimize the number of accidental clicks.
Pretty sure that's not true, Asian in the UK means everyone from Asia including India and the Middle East. It's a bit confusing since Asia contains like 4 billion people but yeah.