Freddie Sayers meets Aaron Kindsvatter, professor of counselling at the University of Vermont. Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/vermont-professor-i-stand-by-my-anti-whiteness-video/ Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/college-professor-i-wont-back-down-over-anti-whiteness-video Over the past year, the culture wars have been raging and one of the places where they have been fought most fiercely is on American college campuses. Efforts to 'decolonise the curriculum' and censor professors and students found to be deviating from progressive orthodoxy on identity issues have intensified, particularly on liberal college campuses. Last week, another target was found, this time at the University of Vermont. Claiming to see an ideology of 'anti-whiteness' spreading around the School of Education, Professor Aaron Kindsvatter published a video denouncing the anti-racist agenda for discriminating against people on account of their skin colour. As a professor of counselling, Kindsvatter was especially concerned about the implementation of policy based on the work of Ibram X. Kendi, the author of 'How to be an Antiracist', into the counselling programme. Given that these students were training to be psycho-therapists, Kindsvatter notes, this "rigid" ideology would inform the basis of their work. Shortly after the publication of the video, a familiar pattern emerged: a petition demanding the resignation of Kindsvatter started and a mealy-mouthed apology from the university to the students followed. Kindsvatter is still at the university, but for how long is anyone's guess... #antiracism #ibramxkendi #woke