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"This is a civilisational failure!" – World's Strictest Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh [ARC26] — Transcript

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0:01Hi everyone. Well, I am Britain's
0:02strictest headmistress, so I need us
0:04sitting up straight and all eyes on me.
0:10A few weeks ago,
0:12we all say saw the same footage.
0:15A young man called Henry Novak, barely
0:17out of childhood, handcuffed on the
0:19ground,
0:21begging the police for help.
0:24And what followed was the confusion of
0:26our commentators as they struggled to
0:28explain how
0:30our young police officers, sworn to
0:32protect the public, could behave in such
0:34a way.
0:36No one seemed to have a convincing
0:37answer.
0:39But when you spend a lifetime in
0:40schools, it's pretty clear what's going
0:42on.
0:44Those young police officers are not a
0:46special case.
0:47They're collateral damage.
0:49And the pattern runs far further afield
0:51than policing.
0:53Last September, Charlie Kirk was shot,
0:56and within hours, young people were
0:58celebrating all over the internet,
1:00despite the fact that his two little
1:02children would have to grow up without
1:03their father.
1:05Many of us looked on in disbelief.
1:08What has happened to the moral core of
1:10our young people?
1:12Something has changed profoundly in how
1:15our young people see the world.
1:17Those police officers were not evil.
1:20They were not incompetent. They were
1:22terrified.
1:23Terrified of being seen as racist.
1:27Charlie Kirk held views young people
1:29find objectionable,
1:31and so his death was cause for
1:33celebration.
1:35Henry Novak's attacker was a brown man,
1:38so the police's deepest instinct to
1:41protect the victim was overridden by
1:44their most powerful fear, being accused
1:47of racism.
1:49The police are not special.
1:52They're what some of our young people
1:53have become so consumed by white guilt
1:56that they will do crazy, irrational, and
1:58inhumane things rather than risk being
2:01seen as racist.
2:04Unless we try to explain this change in
2:06our moral core,
2:08and the moral core of our young people,
2:11and why we are witnessing this culture
2:13change across many Western countries, we
2:16cannot pretend to care about the West.
2:19Our profound lack of interest in the
2:21moral values surrounding our children
2:24has caused our civilizational collapse.
2:28The reason the younger generation see
2:30things as they do is because they have
2:33been taught to view people in two camps,
2:36those who are oppressed and those who
2:39are oppressors. And in their eyes,
2:41Charlie Kirk was an oppressor, so his
2:43death did not warrant grief.
2:46The man who killed Kenny Novak belonged
2:49to the oppressed class, so the police's
2:52job was to protect him, not the dying
2:55man on the ground.
2:58This is not cruelty or incompetence.
3:01This is white guilt.
3:02And we are the ones who have taught this
3:04to our children. We, the boomers, the
3:08Gen Xers, the older millennials, we are
3:11responsible for not teaching our
3:12children the difference between right
3:14and wrong. We
3:18>> [applause]
3:22>> We are the ones who immersed our
3:24children in a culture of victimhood,
3:27which is at odds with the culture of
3:29personal responsibility
3:31we all grew up in. A culture we very
3:34stupidly taken for granted. As little as
3:3740 or 50 years ago, the bedrock of
3:40traditional small-c conservative values
3:42that built the West were commonplace in
3:44our schools and in our general culture.
3:47One of my teachers at my school always
3:50tells me about his grandfather,
3:52a man who, no matter how ill he was,
3:54never missed a single day at work,
3:57yet always had time to teach his
3:58grandson how to be a better version of
4:00himself.
4:02No quiet quitting for him.
4:05When he retired fifth after 50 years, 50
4:08years with the same company,
4:11he was so proud of his company letter
4:14thanking him for his service that he
4:16gave it to his grandson.
4:19Once upon a time, we all knew that
4:21traditional values gave us a chance at a
4:24meaningful life.
4:26All the grandmothers knew it, all the
4:28pastors knew it, even the teachers knew
4:31it.
4:32So, why don't our young people know it
4:34now?
4:35We boomers, Gen Xers, and older
4:38millennials think school is just about
4:40teaching algebra.
4:42Your kid's science teacher not so good?
4:44No big deal. Just get the kid a tutor.
4:46And sure, they're on social media, but
4:48we had TV, and we assume they're the
4:51same.
4:53Parents are busy working, and well, your
4:55own parents didn't war game your
4:57upbringing.
4:59It just sort of happens somehow.
5:01You grew up without too much effort, and
5:04you turned out just fine.
5:06You know the difference between right
5:08and wrong.
5:09So, why would you war game the
5:11upbringing of your own children?
5:13Because raising a kid in the 21st
5:16century is a different order of
5:17magnitude of task. We have taken for
5:20granted the values from our elders, and
5:22we have missed the fact that we are the
5:25elders now.
5:27The only reason the Sex and the City
5:28liberalism of the 1990s was fine was
5:31because we were anchored by the small-c
5:33conservatism of our parents and our
5:35grandparents.
5:36Do you ever wonder why Gen Z behaves so
5:39differently in the workplace?
5:41Not all of them, sure, but
5:43we all know they tend to be be
5:45performative than older generations,
5:48tend to value feelings more,
5:50and don't really embody the small C
5:53conservative values of duty to others or
5:57real sacrifice instead of the
5:59performative kind.
6:01Instead, young people swim in a culture
6:05of instant gratification and live your
6:08best life. You do you. Be who you want
6:11to be.
6:12And if you think Gen Z is bad, just you
6:15wait till you see Gen Alpha.
6:17The culture shift comes from what
6:19children learn at school and online.
6:22Ask any young person what history they
6:24learned at school, and they'll tell you,
6:27"Hitler."
6:28Ask them what else? "Slavery." Ask them
6:30what else? "American civil rights." In
6:33fact, what little they know of history
6:35will be all about black and brown people
6:38fighting for equality against the white
6:41man. Women fighting men for the vote.
6:44Gay and trans people fighting for
6:46various rights. Our young people have
6:49been taught that history is simply one
6:51long story about various groups
6:54struggling under the oppressive dead
6:58white man. Out with Dickens,
7:00Shakespeare, Kipling, and Wordsworth. We
7:02must decolonize. History is taught
7:05through an oppressor lens. The
7:06triangular slave trade, white men held
7:08the power. What about Britain ending the
7:10slave trade? More than a quick mention,
7:12if at all? Mm, no. What of the Arab
7:15slave trade that lasted three times as
7:17long as the triangular slave trade? Mm,
7:19no. Okay, so, GCSE history in Britain is
7:23often taught as migration through time.
7:27So, the idea that Britain has always
7:29been a land of immigrants is embedded in
7:32our children's heads. Most schools would
7:35prefer to concentrate learning
7:37about the tiny number of black people
7:40who existed in Tudor England over a
7:42thorough analysis of England's break
7:45from Rome.
7:46Medieval history becomes her story and
7:49is told through the eyes of Eleanor of
7:52Aquitaine because after all, she was a
7:55woman. Not to mention weeks on King
7:57Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a
8:00black Muslim. His bearing on British
8:02institutions, laws, and faith is
8:05nonexistent
8:06and the fact that he is said to have
8:08been the richest man in history thanks
8:10in part to his massive slave-owning
8:14society is a detail somehow that
8:17teachers rarely ever teach.
8:20But it isn't just our schools.
8:22It's our general culture, too.
8:25Take your kids to a museum or an art
8:28gallery in any Western country and
8:31you'll find the same narrative.
8:34As an example, when learning about
8:36aviation in London's Science Museum and
8:40the extraordinary feat that is man
8:43making massive machines move in the sky
8:48a write-up on the wall explains that
8:50women and black people were historically
8:52barred from aviation schools and the
8:54military.
8:55Similarly, James Watt, the man who
8:58invented the steam engine and is
9:00considered the founder of the Industrial
9:03Revolution has a write-up on the wall
9:05explaining that his early career
9:07involved slave trafficking with a bonus
9:09analysis of the whole of Britain's
9:11complicity in the slave trade.
9:15They flatten the entire human story and
9:18all of its complexities into the
9:20narrative of oppressor and oppressed
9:23leaving young people unable to see the
9:26world in any other terms.
9:33>> [applause]
9:40>> How can children feel that they belong
9:42to their country when they are immersed
9:44in an educational culture that teaches
9:46that their country is merely an evil
9:49oppressor?
9:50Children are the future.
9:53And yet we are teaching them to have
9:55contempt for their elders whose
9:57oppressive world needs overthrowing by a
9:59new world of young, arrogant,
10:01anti-racists who know better than we do.
10:05We older Westerners are cutting off the
10:07branches upon which we sit because of
10:09the guilt some of us feel for being
10:10white and privileged. We look at
10:12Mandami, the mayor of New York, and Zack
10:15Polanski, the very popular leader of the
10:16Green Party amongst the under 30s in the
10:18UK,
10:20and we wonder what on earth is going on.
10:22Why are our young people voting for and
10:25cheerleading these Marxist and really
10:27quite extreme politicians?
10:30Few of us understand how much the online
10:33world reinforces this culture of the
10:36oppressor versus the oppressed.
10:38Victimhood saturates every video,
10:41whether it's about a foreign war,
10:43transphobia, or racism, and white guilt
10:47lingers everywhere. It should not come
10:50as a surprise that our young people's
10:51moral core does not recognize complexity
10:54or nuance. They have been formed by
10:56school and the online world to make one
11:00judgment only, oppressor or oppressed,
11:04good or bad, and they are desperate not
11:08to be seen as racist.
11:10We see this most starkly with our young
11:12police officers.
11:14Well, I'm here to tell you
11:16that's on us.
11:18We don't care about childhood, and then
11:20we wonder why our children have imbibed
11:23the wrong values.
11:24At my school, Michaela, developing
11:27traditional moral character and
11:29defending our inherited tradition is at
11:31the center of what we do.
11:34Now, being a teacher,
11:36I've got some homework for you.
11:39I want you to live your lives by the
11:41small-c conservative values that were
11:43instinctive to our grandparents.
11:46Be brave and put away your lifestyles of
11:49anything goes.
11:51Saving the West ain't easy, you know.
11:55And then you need to narrate those
11:56traditional values openly with your
11:59children, your grandchildren, your
12:01nephews, your nieces as if WE'RE GOING
12:04TO WAR.
12:05We need
12:07>> [applause]
12:12[applause]
12:15>> We need to inoculate our children
12:17against the seductive ideas of
12:19victimhood and hold them to account so
12:22that they can see that they are morally
12:24responsible beings with agency, whatever
12:28their race, whatever their religion.
12:30So, yes, Henry Novak's police officers
12:33were trained with the wrong priorities.
12:35But that training was only fuel on a
12:37fire that has been burning their whole
12:40entire lives.
12:42A young man lay dying on the ground and
12:44their most powerful instinct was not to
12:46help him, but to manage their own terror
12:49of being seen as racist. This is not a
12:52policing a failure. This is a
12:54civilizational failure and it belongs to
12:56us because of what we have done and are
12:59doing TO OUR CHILDREN.
13:02>> [applause]
13:06[applause]
13:09>> I TALK ABOUT ALL OF THIS AND MORE ON my
13:11new podcast coming out in August. And
13:14strict It's called strictly education
13:16for parents, for teachers out there and
13:17you can find me on YouTube.
13:19We all need to be brave enough to teach
13:22children a sense of duty and service,
13:25love of country, gratitude over
13:28entitlement, hard work over laziness.
13:32Forgiveness over vengeance. And our
13:34children will reject the oppressor and
13:36oppressed narrative instinctively. They
13:39will know in their hearts that dignity
13:41comes through owning one's moral agency,
13:44through being responsible and
13:46sacrificing for the betterment of the
13:49whole.
13:50Schools matter.
13:52Families matter.
13:54Children matter.
13:56Save our children and we'll save the
13:58West. Thank you.
14:01>> [applause]

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