Here is the link;https://www.act.org.nz/schoolkids_being_taught_about_white_privilege.
I am hardly a fan of the ACT Party but the article in the above link makes a point.
The "White Privilege" dogma emanates from US universities and has entered mainstream US public discourse. It was only a matter of time before the NZ left and the Labour Government were "colonised" by US-made American Marxism.
The teaching of this theory in schools has been a contested issue with some states banning the teaching of it. The opposition has come from across the racial divide eg.https://rumble.com/vgxaad-black-mom-delivers-scorching-takedown-of-critical-race-theory-at-school-boa.html.
Some member of the French intelligentsia is also complaining of United States university colonisation in terms of non-gender language. This is a bit rich given that France has given the US academic world- and thereby us in NZ the toxic Michel Foucault.
A Marxist keyword is present: 'decolonise. But the race "issue is not the issue." It is the blind or bluff for the real issue, the change of regime.
The origins of American Marxism also known as Progressivism is not that well known in New Zealand. It had a start under Herbert D Croly and Woodrow Wilson as President gave it impetus and it flavoured FDR's regime and the dalliance with the then Soviet Union where Brains Trust members had in the late 1920s been hosted by Stalin. In the latter 20th C names such as Cloward and Piven and Saul Alinsky (both Hillary Clinton and Obama wrote papers on Alinsky).
Alinsky- a community organiser (a title Obama had) famous book was ,b>Rules for Radicals. Its techniques are once known can be seen. One of his techniques:
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
In this one can see the effectiveness of the campaign against Trump, the MO of cancel culture and the effectiveness of slurs such as "racist" and "fascist". Alinsky is famous for the comment 'never let a crisis go to waste.
Again his advice:
The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.
The doctrine is divisive and undermines attempts at maintaining 'concord' and a functioning civil society.
American Marxism's arrival on our shores and its embrace by the Ministry of Education does not augur well. It's one thing for students at the tertiary level to grapple with critical race theory but unconscionable children at primary school do so. Good intentions are how useful idiots are inducted.
Funnily enough, there is a great deal of sad irony in the fact that Marxists never ever contemplate that they have been intellectually colonised by a 19thC European journalist, whose thinking went back into 18thC, an exiled German who was a resentful malcontent and racist if not sexist, called Karl Marx.