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Tim Dower: Is white privilege just causing further division?
There is an old maxim that goes back to pre-Christian times, divide and rule.
Julius Caesar modified it to divide and conquer.
Fast forward a couple of thousand years, and to this current discussion about White Privilege, which is very significant in a country like New Zealand.
According to emails released under the Official Information Act, the Education Ministry has spent $700,000 dollars teaching civil servants about it.
People who go on the course are apparently told that recognising white privilege acknowledges New Zealand's colonial history.
And it probes the impact of white privilege…
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