Police at one of Britain’s biggest forces are being taught they have ‘white privilege’ as part of so-called ‘equity training’.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/police-officers-taught-they-have-white-privilege-during-equity-training/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5ecFpV4vv6X3OsUnBk6dko_49KhJwO9vBD7-wsC5gcLFq-lzrmwEZMNKZHGg_aem_RLi2BC8IDa7DAbWmC7dcJQ
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Telling some poverty stricken kiddo from the underbelly estates in the North East they are somehow privileged will never not piss me off.
This is the quality of the ex-officer who was asked to do the review.
[https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/10/police-officer-avoids-driving-ban-after-crashing-into-car-while-on-phone-10550559/](https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/10/police-officer-avoids-driving-ban-after-crashing-into-car-while-on-phone-10550559/)
Also took Cleveland Police to court claiming race bias for not giving her a job……and lost.
[https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/ex-assistant-chief-alleges-sex-27766297](https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/ex-assistant-chief-alleges-sex-27766297)
The issue here is with the Police and Crime Commissioner who picked the wrong person to do the review.
Not the force who were lumbered with the outcome.
I mean this is fairly standard.
White privilege is simply the absence of barriers created by your skin colour. It’s not some controversial topic.
Things such as micro agressions and being anti-racist are again fairly standard practice training topics for many large organisations.
I’ve had similar training; the premise is that’s it’s ok to positively discriminate in favour of everyone but white men and and boys because of past ‘privilege’.
It’s called equity though…not revenge…but it means more or less the same thing.
Yeah, hard to respect your boss if you know they got the promotion this way
Meanwhile, ethnic minority staff no longer wanted to participate in special promotion schemes as “the damage to their reputation is greater than the opportunity they may have been afforded”.
This same force was found to have systemically discriminated against white officers at an employment tribunal last month. [https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2025/march/31-03-2025/outcome-of-the-employment-tribunal-review/](https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2025/march/31-03-2025/outcome-of-the-employment-tribunal-review/)
You heard that correctly- Thames Valley Police are simultaneously telling white officers that they have privilege, while at the same time being reprimanded in the courts for targeting these same officers on the basis of their race.
Im asian and i hate this white privilege stuff, if the want to get rid of this soncalled white privilege then stop introducing into things
Anyone still manning the “Moral Panic” counter or are there just too many to track now?
What do the white police officers receive over other police officers?
Better pay, better uniforms or cars to drive? Do they not put their lives in danger in the job?
Or is this another way to get across some sort of agenda?
It’s crazy how people hate the wokies so much that we’ve gone full circle to pretending racism doesn’t exist and that any step to remedy it is evil.
Where does this training originate from…who is writing it…I really want to know who is creating more anger than its actually solving
I think the issue is everyone who talks about this is shit at communicating it, I’m from an extremely white and extremely poor bit of the North East and so whenever I see people hear about the notion of “white priviledge,” they understandably get their backs up and hackles raised because they’ve never had it easy and they’ve not had anything handed to them so having a bunch of (perception is usually southerners from London,) tell them that actually they’re privilidged and have it easy because of something out of their control is obviously going to go down poorly. Especially when it’s reported on like this. It’s like how people are shite at talking about male privilidge and always ignore the many ways in which, mainly young working class lads, are hard done by.
But it’s actually: whilst you may (will) face classism and sexism (depending,) and other forms of bigotry and discrimination you will not (sort of ignoring travellers) face it because of your ethnicity/race whilst those within this country who aren’t white probably will face barriers and discrimination related to that.
It isn’t “Oh white people have it easy!” But white people aren’t facing this specific challenge. It’s like regional accent discrimination and classism or homophobia, we do not tell gay people that discrimination against them doesn’t exist just because straight people can be working class – it should be the same with race. The people who act like it means white people have it easy are either misinformed, misunderstanding it or have had someone tell them that because *they* also don’t know what they’re talking about.
It isn’t that the kids from those estates have it easy but that they won’t face barriers because of their skin colour the way a kid that isn’t white will. There’s still plenty of barriers and general shit they have to face. Their lives aren’t easy because of it, just different. Doesn’t take away anyone’s achivements if they’re white or a man or a woman or straight or gay – it just means the road to get there will have had different hurdles but generally they’ll all have been roads with their own challenges and hardship.
Keep pissing off a large part of the country and eventually people will take notice. Voting for labour or conservatives (or even Reform) will not solve this.
It’s almost as if the police leadership teams sit there and say “Trust in us is at an all time low, the average citizen of this country loathes us, some of us treat members of the public like scum and we don’t even attend threats of murder, here’s a whiteboard, how can we make the public hate us even more?”
Class privilege is the biggest issue, this is just pointing us away from real problems and keeping us busy bickering.
I don’t deny there’s some truth to the term but it’s really testament to the left’s wider “branding” problem, there’s dozens of examples of this opting for the more antagonistic wording of these issues
Then they wonder why the right are running rings around them at the minute.
This pisses me off so much it’s actually unfathomable
There seems to be a lot of this kind of story in the last few weeks. Reform will do very well out of it in the coming council elections.
Nonsense, a police force should be made up of the community it serves to build trust which I think it mostly does across the UK on the smaller scale, clearly not the caser for the Met and id assume the other big metropolitan forces are the same. Think a local bobby works better than someone who might not know the community.
Poor 31 year old from Rotherham, did my white privilege get lost in the mail?
Maybe Kier Starmer should issue an apology on behalf of white people?
Wish this shit would end. Awful for race relations and yet more odious implication that if youre white then you’re a bit of a problem.
I understand how white privilege is defined by a poor, white person from a council estate being somehow better off than any other race in the same poor council estate. My question is, do other counties, with a white minority teach black privilege? If so, then I agree with the statement. But if it’s not taught anywhere else then it’s just one of the many heavily pushed ideas by the upper ruling class in order to further divide us in order to stop us from doing something about the real issue. The elite ruling class.
My ex boyfriend came from a broken rural white working class Scottish family who grew up with severe mental health issues given how fucked up his family was
Privilege is not a thing which applies universally to all white folks
Oh do fuck off. I was born into poverty, had little to no education, worked my arse off, and am somehow privileged because I’m white? Balls to that.
As an ex Police Officer (left because it was shite) my view is Management and Senior Officers just make knee jerk reactions to the latest fad and do not have a clear plan of who they are. They have no idea what they are trying to achieve. This is demonstrated in Right Care, Right Person. Police were attending loads of Mental Health call outs, not dealing with crime, getting slated for not dealing with crime, and then went hang on – this is the NHS’s responsibility here. Rightly so they’ve finally pushed back.
Police Forces should have been amalgamated years ago like Police Scotland. All into one national force. Procurement, HR, Policy, Procedure, etc. It would save loads of money and make Policing more organised. In addition, it would serve to remove bullshit like this.
Poor white kids going into the Police (like I was) are not privileged. In the past racism was a major issue, we are now going too far the other way. You can be racist to white people as well – which some people seem to forget.
It needs to be balanced but indoctrination like this is not the way to stop bias or racism in Policing.
Yes, very good, because white people can never be poor or fucked over by the system, right? Yes, that’s very good.
Everyone should have training in this, people just don’t understand what it means and the word ‘privilege’ aggravates a lot of people and just creates more division.
Oh look, more rage bait for the right of center.
Heaven forbid we teach our police officers about the links between demographics, poverty and crime.
I was told recently that I had white privilege…
I grew up in a council house, my parents struggled and money was always tight…Parents ended up separating and went over a year without any TV or Internet…Was a time when the dinners were smaller and cheaper cuts of meat…
Thankfully my older brother was able to help out with money…
I know lots of people were worse off than me…but I certainly didn’t feel privileged at any stage
So they’re being taught basic sociology, I don’t think at any level it’s bad that anybody is being taught anything. They can choose to use it or just forget about it, but I don’t see a downside to being given bigger ideas
Governments love this one trick…
Instead of calling it for what it is: **racial disadvantage** and doing their job addressing it by taxing their rich billionaire buddies a little more, they come up with these inverted terms to shift the blame for black people being poor onto almost equally as poor white people and also make them fight with one another all the while the billionaires are pillaging the country in the background.
Can we stop putting people on a pedestal.
Apparently the best way to teach equality is to tell certain groups that they don’t count?
Being white doesn’t pay your bills. The world is a crazy place.
I do believe in white privilege, but that’s not even the issue cited in this article.
The issue is they’re aggressively pushing special programmes and promotions on minority groups, to such an extent where those groups are wary of accepting them and everyone else is pissed that they didn’t get a shot – failed on every level.
What’s that being handed to you on a silver platter Mr Farage? An election?
Anybody worth listening to with regards to white privilege probably also supports class equality and gender equality etc etc
If people actually bothered to listen to them talk about *intersectionality* they’d understand that class, race, gender, sexuality all intersect with each other to produce societal outcomes
Too often people hear “white privilege” and switch off, but it’s just one of many privileges/disadvantages a person can have in life. Just because, for example, your class disadvantage has outweighed your racial advantage, doesn’t mean that advantage doesn’t exist
The flip side is that it’s true, there are many people who seem to only focus on racial privilege and they come across as (or simply just are) ignorant of other disadvantages a person may have. But those people either A. Just specialise in one form of equality or B. aren’t worth listening to or getting upset over
Mandatory reminder that identity politics is being used by the ruling class to distract us from the biggest inequality- which is wealth.
Rupert Murdoch and co want us frothing the mouth over our differences so we don’t see the common denominator- which is millionaires and billionaires sucking our system dry and hoarding the wealth of the world
This isn’t really a big deal. It happens in the military too. It’s not like they guilt trip people. They just explain that if you’re a man, or straight, or white, or Christian, or British, or wealthy, you’re going to experience certain benefits from it, and you might not notice them, but the people who don’t have those benefits notice them. It’s not a big deal. But if you’re in a public facing role, you should probably be aware that other people are going to experience the world differently.
Of course, this is LBC, so don’t expect nuance.