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Exactly, can you imagine the uproar now if an NBA team owner declared they wanted more white men in the squad so that it matched the viewing audience/customer base. The uproar would be out of this world. It's common practice now for business to try and employ more women or people from...

Justice should be served on an individual, not at group level. Stopping racism at an individual level is impossible. I hope that makes it a bit clearer.

I'm sad to hear that. How do you know the white male got the job purely on the colour of his skin? Sadly, stopping individual racism is impossible. However, punishing an entire group of people to make things "less unfair" is not right. It could also be described as racism. If you are...

Equality has nothing to do with fairness. You are talking about equality of outcome. How you view the world should be. On top of that, what you suggested was not fairness. You suggested punishing a group of people based purely on the colour of skin. "a little unfairness" you seem to think is...

What's fairness have to do with it? It's your idea of fairness. Honestly you'll be going for reparations next. Absolute nonsense. You shouldn't punish innocent people for the wrong doings of others in the past which is what you are suggesting here.

I totally agree with your second statement regarding treating people the same and giving the same chance and opportunity.

Discrimination is discrimination no matter if it's described as positive or not. Giving advantage to someone because of the colour of skin is racism. Belief has nothing to do with it in my eyes. If you promote one group of people by its definition you are putting another group of people at a...

Equality is not achieved by treating everyone the same......? How can that be equality? And why should everyone be able to achieve the same results? What you are after is equality of outcome. I want equality of opportunity. Very different things.

I think not. You are advocating advantages being given to people based purely on the colour of skin. If that is not the definition of racism please tell me what is.

Yeah, racism to fix racism. Great idea.

Culture and Education to start

OK, so the NBA is dominated by black men. Are white men discriminated against because they have a low representation level in the league? Of course they are not. My point being, you say the unemployment rates should be equal between white and minority groups but you cannot give a reason why...

Yes, just spotted it. Whoops! :-)

Did I? Were did I quote myself?

So are men discriminated against in Nursing, teaching, advertising etc because they don't make up 50% of the work force in that industry?

Absolute nonsense. Inequality of outcome is does not mean that any inequity has taken place. For example, nursing (91% women), Elementary and secondary school teachers (81% women) HR (69% women) Accountancy and Advertising (60% women). Does this mean that men are discriminated against for these...

More to the point, why do you think that the unemployment rate for each group of people should be the same?

There is no evidence in these reports that confirm that the roles didn't go to the person that deserved it the most. They are unaware of the total pool of people who applied for each role. In fact quota's/targets in each company might have actually hindered the people in the minority groups...

And your evidence for that is?