Time to battle against ‘bias’ brainwashing

Well done to Ben Bradley for his article last week on the absurd re-education training sessions for MPs on unconscious bias.

It’s bad enough that major institutions subject employees to these courses, but for Parliament and the public sector to do so at taxpayers’ expense is outrageous.

I hope many more MPs follow Mr Bradley’s example and refuse to attend.

David Morgan, Shrewsbury

No one wants to live in a society where people spread hatred, but imposing opinions and attitudes on everyone to iron out bias is a dangerous path. Free speech is worth fighting for.

Mick Ferrie, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall

Our MPs should have nothing to do with this destructive ideology. The public have a right to know the names of any MPs who attend these lectures.

Harry Foster, Middlesbrough

Companies are laying off staff and took advantage of the furlough scheme, but have money for this nonsense? We are adults and can make up our own minds without the need for brainwashing.

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A work colleague was sent on a course after opening a conference with, ‘Hi guys and welcome…’ A woman complained that ‘guys’ excluded the females in the audience. Sometimes we need to take expressions in the spirit in which they are meant.

L. Larson, London

Unconscious bias concerns far more people than skin colour. You may have negative bias towards older or younger people, fat or thin people, or stereotype someone who has a regional accent. What’s the harm in doing the training? Mr Bradley is an MP. Why should he not check his bias?

W. Carr, London

These courses are there to help Mr Bradley see everyone’s point of view. I would hope this would be useful to someone representing 80,000 constituents.

Mike Steers, Penzance

The training courses are nothing new. As teachers in London in the early 1980s, we were forced to go through this nonsense – something of an insult as we had been teaching children from all backgrounds and skin colours for many years.

M. Dixon, Northfleet, Kent

All humans are not the same. Our evolved decency has allowed us to overlook our differences and to live side by side, but we are as nature has made us and brainwashing can’t change that. Annie Scott, Bognor Regis

The oppression and injustice endured by England’s Africanskinned people are used by the political Left to push ‘Critical Race Theory’, which teaches that all Caucasian people are racist.

The Left will not be content until it is a criminal offence to say ‘Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen’.

Chaka Artwell, Oxford