The Brits just continue to out-do themselves.
Posted on 03/16/2008 12:18:56 PM PDT by yankeedame
Vital to whom? Certainly not the white men that are being discriminated against.
So-called "affirmative action" here in the US does the same thing. PC requires that jobs be filled according to demographics, regardless of whether or not people are actually qualified for the positions.
In this context, "equally qualified" means "both meet the minimum requirements". Thus, if the white is MUCH MORE qualified, the black gets it as long as the black meets the minimum
Which will result in the minimum requirements being brought lower and lower until "enough" blacks qualify to be hired
This scheme is not as far-fetched as it may seem. Indeed, there is legal precedent for this idea. Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart was able to succinctly create a legal framework for this scheme quite a while back. That framework was called the Nuremberg Laws. The left has learned well from Dr. Stuckart.
No question about it -- at the federal level hiring is strongly influenced by "affirmative action". Then there's another similar set of obstacles for promotions.
“Orwellian term: “equalities minister.””
Sad to say we preceded them in this with “affirmative action”.
I was at Carls Jr. here in Los Angeles and trying to ask the girl behind the counter if I could still drink a shake or do their new shakes require a spoon. The guy behind me, seeing my frustration in trying to communicate with someone with limited English told me that he applied for a job here and was turned down because he didn’t speak Mexican (ok,… he said Spanish, I say Mexican).
This already happens in the UK and here. The only difference is that they aren’t afraid to admit that the purpose of all this is to wipe out Whites from Western Civilization and give it to non-reproducing entities, or to savages.
Only communists could call it anti-discrimination when they discriminate against Whites.
This is already happening in the US in schools and jobs. The left spins it a few different ways, but it’s undeniable.
Big business was the main push behind it here. Corporations funded the front-activists and lawyers to do it. Quite a few Fortune 500s paid for filing briefs in favor of “affirmative action” in a Michigan University case not long ago.
The US has had such programs for over thirty years. We've even provided generous tax credits to businesses to discriminate against qualified white males.
The effects are obvious. We've gone from being the world's leading economic superpower to a hollow nation perched on the brink of a major depression.
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