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We were wrong to try to ban racism out of existence, says former equality chief
Daily Mail ^ | 3/7/2015

Posted on 03/08/2015 9:04:45 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

Anti-racism doctrine has encouraged abuse and endangered lives, he says...

A former equality chief has branded his years working to stamp out racial discrimination as 'utterly wrong'.

Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an 'ugly new doctrine'.

Mr Phillips is the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has waged a 30-year campaign to tackle issues around discrimination and equality.

In an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, called Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True, he says attempts to stop prejudice instead encouraged abuse and endangered lives as well as contributed to the rise of parties like Ukip.

In the 75-minute documentary, he delves into Britain's racial tensions and stereotypes as well as hostilities towards immigrants.

He explains: 'It was my job to to make sure that different racial and religious groups got on.

'Campaigners like me seriously believed that if we could prevent people expressing prejudiced ideas then eventually they would stop thinking them.

'But now I'm convinced we were utterly wrong.'

...But Mr Phillips insists people should be free to use racial stereotypes, such as that many Jews are rich or that black people are more likely to be convicted for robbery, because they are true.

Explaining the issue, he said: 'The dividing lines of race, religion and culture are probably the most dangerous flashpoints in Britain today, but they're also the ones we find hardest to talk about in public.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 03/08/2015 9:04:45 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

A government can change behavior, but not beliefs, through the use of force. The Romans learned that in dealing with Christianity.


2 posted on 03/08/2015 9:07:56 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Altura Ct.

There is an unintended consequence to every law and policy.


3 posted on 03/08/2015 9:08:02 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Altura Ct.
What's this? One eyelid lifting ever so slightly? Will the stream of consciousness be so bright as to be overwhelming?

Stay tuned. Keep those hopes up and those fingers crossed.

Pray if you're of that sort.

4 posted on 03/08/2015 9:08:16 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Altura Ct.

He helped the ongoing conquest of the West by the Third World.


5 posted on 03/08/2015 9:11:08 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Altura Ct.

"What's he saying, Onslow?"


"Ah. Nothing for you to worry your pretty li'l head about, m'love. Whatever he's saying, nobody will remember it by morning."

6 posted on 03/08/2015 9:12:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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seriously believed that if we could prevent people expressing prejudiced ideas then eventually they would stop thinking them

Just wow. Bolshevik Thought Crime.

This is who the British brought into power voting for the "Labor" party.

Guess Orwell isnt as well known in his own country as we might think.

Oops, sorry, didn't mean to think on my own there...will report myself

7 posted on 03/08/2015 9:17:18 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Spok

So did the Bolsheviks. Try as they did they could not eliminate religion in the old USSR.


8 posted on 03/08/2015 9:23:02 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Altura Ct.

And they’re trying the same thing here in the US as well.

It’s been back-firing for sometime.


9 posted on 03/08/2015 9:43:17 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Altura Ct.

Why do we need “equality chiefs” at “Equality and Human Rights Commissions,” with a whole bunch of documentaries, hand-wringing, laws, etc.? All this just proves that diversity is NOT a strength and multiculturalism doesn’t work. If it did, people would simply celebrate it naturally, and all the commissions and rules and laws, etc. wouldn’t be necessary. Diversity causes nothing but problems, and people have to be forced and pressured to accept it.


10 posted on 03/08/2015 9:49:20 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s true in America too. The PC thought crime police have set race relations back 100 years.

Nobody can discuss a problem if it involves race, you are labeled a racist for even bringing it up, and the discussion is over.

Blacks whine that the police harass their kids, but you can’t tell them the reason is because they let their kids dress like gang-banger drug dealers. If you do you are a racist that doesn’t understand their ‘culture’, and the discussion is over.


11 posted on 03/08/2015 9:50:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Great Britain, to all intents and proposes, had no race problem - until the muslimes came along.


12 posted on 03/08/2015 10:04:24 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Altura Ct.
Equal Rights

.....Requires Equal Duty !


To balance any Formula, both sides have to be true.
That's how it works, anywhere in the Universe.

Unfortunately the 2nd part is rarely discussed.


13 posted on 03/08/2015 10:08:05 AM PDT by Koracan
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To: Beagle8U

But the President of the United State sis free to defame Catholics in the name of defending Muslims.


14 posted on 03/08/2015 11:26:29 AM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Beagle8U

Exactly. I like how Joseph Sobran put it in this video clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy9OVtrSXoY


15 posted on 03/08/2015 11:27:06 AM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Texas Eagle
What's this? One eyelid lifting ever so slightly? Will the stream of consciousness be so bright as to be overwhelming? Stay tuned. Keep those hopes up and those fingers crossed. Pray if you're of that sort.

Agreed. This is as remarkable and unexpected as what is going on with Hillary. There seems to have been a glitch in the Matrix.

16 posted on 03/08/2015 11:28:22 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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