Is that Lucy Powell? What’s the compliant? The education secretary has visited a school?
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geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoThe X picture is a screenshot of someone. They even drew a red line on it to highlight where she is. The Sky News message being quoted is from X
stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Is that what you think is going on in the photo?
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
The picture is showing a classroom, which is part of a school. The small people in the front are children. They’re all wearing school uniforms. Using advanced, human-level pattern-matching in our reasoning, we can make a guess that the children in the picture are attending the school as students.
What is being pointed out is that Bridget Phillipson took part in “making protests and statements about geopolitical events” herself, though in support of the UK’s current foreign policy. Lucy Powell is now saying that is inappropriate, which means her office has done something inappropriate without acknowledgement or comment.
What is being insinuated by pointing this out is that they don’t actually think it’s inappropriate, but they want to limit “making protests and statements about geopolitical events” to those that support the UK’s current foreign policy.
Rather than being interested in educating students, she’s interested in brainwashing students.
One hopes that the education system will try to give students tools to question and verify narratives, and live life with principles derived from dialectic analysis. But since that is proven false by the image, if you try to reason about this inconsistency or hypocrisy, then the likely conclusion you will draw is that Lucy Powell’s goal instead seems to be to create ignorant stormtroopers that will obediently carry out her genocides.
Hope this helps.
Screenhog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The person under the red arrow is Bridget Phillipson, Lucy Powell’s predecessor
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Mate it been like three months since Starmer fell and his cabinet was replaced. The UK government is still Labour and Bridget too. The point stands the outrage is extremely selective and has never been a Labour stance