It seems the Left is no longer content to wait until white students get to college before instilling them with extreme self-loathing. An elite K-8 New York City school is teaching what one parent described as “anti-white propaganda” to white students as young as six years old.

The Bank Street School for Children teaches a radical “Racial Justice and Advocacy” curriculum. It is ideologically motivated, racist, and dangerous.

This liberal drive to demonize white people has very serious consequences.

The school eagerly endorses segregating students by race and has created a “dedicated space” for nonwhite students, in which they will interact only with nonwhite teachers. There they will be “embraced” and encouraged to “voice their feelings” and “share experiences about being a kid of color.”

White children, meanwhile, are dragged off to “raise awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness,” “understand and own European ancestry, and see the tie to privilege.” As one anonymous parent put it, “100 percent of the curriculum is what whites have done to other races.” White children at the school are suffering significant emotional damage, their parents say.

There are unsettling parallels between this curriculum and the infamous American Indian boarding schools, in which Native American children were systematically taught that their own culture and heritage was something to be eradicated for the sake of progress.

One would also think that, only 50 years after the civil rights movement, liberals would realize that forcing kids to be ashamed and feel guilty of the color of their skin is neither good nor defensible.

Indeed, civil rights icon and poet James Baldwin famously railed against the “disaffection, the demoralization, and the gap between one person and another only on the basis of the color of their skin.” Now, liberals apparently desire to inflict such disaffection and demoralization on white Americans.

Unfortunately, the Bank Street School isn’t alone in enshrining anti-white prejudice into its curriculum. According to the school’s literature about the program, other elite New York private schools segregate by race.

Riverdale Country School, Brooklyn Friends School, The Cathedral School, The Calhoun School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School all separate children into “race-based affinity groups.” If only Gov. George Wallace knew it was this easy!

But this liberal drive to demonize white people has very serious consequences. At the social level, it feeds anti-white hatred in nonwhite communities. It is no coincidence that the significant rise in black-on-white hate crimes over the last few years — mostly in the forms of the “knockout game” and mass mob attacks — has coincided with the mainstreaming of anti-white prejudice. Meanwhile, numerous leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have threatened revolutionary violence against “white America.”

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At the legal level, this toxic obsession with “privilege” turns whites into effective second-class citizens, as they are denied the protection from “hate crimes” offered to every other identity group. Indeed a quick Google search will reveal a litany of clear incidents of black-on-white hate crimes that were not charged — or reported, for that matter — as such.

Just this Monday, a judge in Canada ruled that an Indigenous Canadian woman who punched a white woman in the face while yelling “I hate white people” did not commit a hate crime.

“The offender said, ‘I hate white people’ and threw a punch,” said Judge Harry Van Harten in his ruling. But he said “there is no evidence either way about what the offender meant or whether … she holds or promotes an ideology which would explain why this assault was aimed at this victim.”

It’s nearly impossible to imagine the judge reaching the same conclusion had the victim been an indigenous woman and the attacker white. But it’s OK, kids. White people are bad. They deserve it.