Ask any young person what history they learned at school and they'll tell you, Hitler.  Ask them, what else?  Slavery.  Ask them, what else? American Civil Rights.  In fact, what little they know of History will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man.  Women fighting men for the vote.  Gays and trans people fighting for various rights our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.  --Katharine Birbalsingh

Stop what you are doing and watch this video. Our entire society has been brainwashed over generations against itself. Our kids will be the final victims if we don’t reverse course now. pic.twitter.com/vJVtUfPmIK

— Bo French (@bofrench) June 28, 2026

Synopsis

Katharine Birbalsingh (often called "Britain's strictest headmistress").

She's the founder and head teacher of Michaela Community School in London. The video in the X post is from one of her presentations (likely at a conference like ARC), where she discusses how society and education have brainwashed generations, the oppressor/oppressed worldview, cultural issues in the West, and the need to restore values like duty and responsibility. 

TRANSCRIPTION 

2:32.  The reason the younger generations see things as they do is because they have been taught to view people in two camps:   those who are oppressed and those who are oppressors.  And in their eyes, Charlie Kirk was an oppressor, so his death did not warrant grief.  The man who killed Henry Novak belonged to the oppressed class.  So the police's job was to protect him not the dying man on the ground.  This is not cruelty or incompetence.  This is white guilt.  And we are the ones who have taught this to our children.  We, the Boomers, the Gen Xers, the older millennials, we are responsible for not teaching our children the difference between right and wrong.  We are the ones who immersed our children in a culture of victimhood which is at odds with the culture of personal responsibility we all grew up in, a culture we very stupidly have taken for granted.  As little as 40 or 50 years ago, the bedrock of traditional, small C conservative values that built the West were commonplace in our schools and our general culture.  One of my teachers at my school always tells me about his grandfather, a man who no matter how ill he never missed a single day at work, yet always had time to teach his grandson how to be a better version of himself.  No quiet quitting for him.  When he retired after 50 years with the same company, he was so proud of his company letter thanking him for his service that he gave it to his grandson.  Once upon a time, we all knew that traditional values gave us a chance at a meaningful life.  All the grandmothers knew it.  All the pastors knew it.  Even the teachers knew it.  So why don't our young people know it now?  We Boomers, Gen Xers, and older millennials think school is just about teaching algebra.  

"The kids' science teacher not so good?  Oh, no big deal.  Just get the kid a tutor."

"And sure they're on social media, but we had TV and we assume they're the same."

"Parents are busy working.  Your own parents didn't war game your upbringing.  It just sort of happened somehow.  You grew up without too much effort, and you turned out just fine.  You know the difference between right and wrong."  

So why would you wargame the upbringing of your own children?

Because raising a kid in the 21st century is a different order of magnitude of task. We have taken for granted the values from our elders and we have missed the fact that we are the elders now. The only reason the Sex and the City liberalism of the 1990s was fine was because we were anchored by the small "c" conservatism of our parents and our grandparents.  Do you ever wonder why gen Z behaves so differently in the workplace?. Not all of them, sure, but know we all know they tend to be more performative than older generations.  Tend to value feelings more.  And don't really embody small "c" conservative values of duty to others.  Or real sacrifice, instead of the performative kind.  Instead, young people swim in a culture of instant gratification, and 

"Live your best life," 

"You do you," and,

"Be who you want to be."  

And if you think Gen Zed is bad, just you wait until you see Gen Alpha.  The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online.  Ask any young person what history they learned at school and they'll tell you, Hitler.  Ask them, what else?  Slavery.  Ask them, what else? American Civil Rights.  In fact, what little they know of History will be all about black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man.  Women fighting men for the vote.  Gays and trans people fighting for various rights our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man.  Out with Dickens, Shakespeare, Kipling, and Wordsworth, we must be colonized.  

History is taught through an oppressive lens.  The triangular slave trade and white men held the power.  What about Britain ending the slave trade?  More than a quick mention, if at all?  Hmm, no.  

What what of the Arab slave trade that lasted three times as long as the triangular slave trade?  Hmm, no.

Okay, GCSE history in Britain is often taught as "migration through time."  So the idea that Britain has all ways than a land of immigrants is embedded in our children's heads most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of black people who existed in tutoring England over a thorough analysis of England's break from Rome