Search results

Your response is, seemingly, a contradiction. "Sadly stopping individual racism is impossible"..............."Everything should be done on an individual level". I know the some of the other applicants didn't on the basis of their skin colour. Seemingly reasonable discussions about 'different...

As I understand it Equallity of opportunity means - even one is free to apply for a job, equality of outcome means - everyone has an equal chance of getting said job. You could argue and I would that that is "fair". I have worked in places where everyone could apply for jobs, a mixture of...

Substitute "equality' for 'fairness'. If it helps. Inequality can be measured. Great debating technique to link something perfectly reasonable with something extreme. Vote Labour - you must support Hamas. Firstly I'm talking about addressing current inequality not historic and secondly what...

I didn't suggest you should.

But people are not treated equally. You may do so but in general they are not. Things like this seek to redress the imbalance. What gets me is that there has been unfairness for years and years and yet any hint of a small amount of unfairness tin the opposite direction that might be necessary...

Yes it is.

The group itself is not fully diverse - that is the point. It is not opportunity that matters, it is reality. As I said to someone else it is not equality just to be allowed to apply for jobs, it is equallity if you have an equal chance of getting that job. That is not currently the case. That...

You can't address a lack of diversity by employing more white people.

Everyone does not get an equal opportunity in this country, that is the point. To claim that they do beggars belief. The right to apply for things does not equal equality.