Teachers need to learn to tackle racism: report
Published: 10 Nov 12 18:11 CET | Print version
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Swedish schoolteachers should be trained on how to handle racism in the classroom, according to a new report into xenophobia presented to the government on Friday.
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"When a pupil wants to challenge and say something racist the teachers often don't know how to handle the situation," the report's author, former Liberal Party leader Bengt Westerberg, said to the Svenska Dagbladet daily.
The report concludes that the greatest threat to vulnerable groups in Sweden comes not from extreme right groups but from everyday intolerance and racism.
While it was recognized that extensive work was being undertaken to tackle the problems of xenophobia within public authorities, councils and voluntary groups, the report highlighted a number of problems.
"The initiatives are often diffuse and lack an overview. There is also a lack of counter-measures against xenophobia on the internet."
The Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen) and the Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsman) would be respectively tasked with monitoring and analysing the development of racism and how the work to tackle it is progressing.
The report and recommendations were handed over by Bengt Westerberg to integration minister Erik Ullenhag on Friday.
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"I am pretty sure that once the training gets started, it will apply to all forms and directions of racism. Why wouldn't it?"
BECAUSE as everyone knows islam is a 1st class religion and muslims are 1st class citizens, TOTALLY incapable of racism. As the Cult of Multiculturalism has taught us, ONLY white people can be RACIST.
It is easy for politicians like Mr Westerberg - hiding behind the fences inside their luxurious WHITE quarters - to act the saint spending other peoples' money. But the regular Swedish worker and taxpayer is beginning to wake up. More and more people are seeing you for what you really are: sanctimonious hypocrites spreading falsehood!
Your immigration policy has crackled completely. And you do not have the guts to admit it, nor do you have the tools to repair the cracks. But by all means, keep this up and you'll be helping https://sverigedemokraterna.se/ even more in 2014.
Q: So it's within human rights to raze healthcare budgets in order to finance the state-engineered master society?
(Politicos)
A: "Everyone has the right to suffer and die for our cause."
Its not racism.