Positive discrimination, an utter disgrace.

Racism

"Prejudice or discrimination based on an individual's race. It can be expressed individually or through institutional policies or practices."

Sexism:

"Bias against a certain gender."

"Ahhhh", take a deep breath, what is it that you are inhailing, morally clean air or the air of a country that seems to forget that it's generally moved through the primitive stage of racism and sexism?

Racism undoubtably haunted the non-white population of this country for centuries and to a degree, a stigma is still attached to them by the morally primitive racists that plague this country. However, we seem to be finding ourselves on a new trend, a new "in thing" for politicians to talk and spin about. This new thing is "positive discrimination" however our political 'buddies' don't usually like to say those words. They prefer less harsh words such as "positive action"...Yes well, welcome to the world of politics.

Yes, it's undoubtable that ethnic monorities and women are unrepresented in institutions such as the police force and our very own Westminster Parliament. However, instead of just looking at this with a blank face and speak the words "institutional racism" why not actually ask "why so?"... The words on our politicians lips should not be "let's tackle this by 'positive action'" but instead "let's tackle this by advertising the occupations, help training for these institutions and encouraging these unrepresented people to stand up and persue this career"...That's what we should be hearing from our politicians lips. That's the answer to under representation of ethnic minorities, not out right racism to the white population or out right sexism to the male population, how is that fair?. When asked how a fair, democratic and morally sound country should run it's job application process, we should be able, as the United Kingdom to stand up straight and say "meritocracy" where the best applicant for the job...Get's the job.

Just look at the definitions I presented at the start and tell me that denying a white person of a job because s/he is white is not racism, and then tell me that denying a male of a job because he is male is not sexism. You tell me that in a credible and logical way and i'll tell you the meaning of life my friend. The truth is; no matter how well our politicians gloss it up it's still out right racism and/or sexism. This country needs to progress by meritocracy. Discrimination of all kinds should be extinguished with a firm 'fist of justice' and we should not tolerate it of any kind to any race or any gender. By creating an acceptance of "positive discrimination" and therefore in truthful words "discrimination of caucassions" and/or "discriminaiton of males" we are sending out the message that such is acceptable and if we do that for a prolonged period it will become the business norm and then the white male population in paticular faces real problems. We cannot afford to revert back to our primitive ways of racism and sexism and that's what positive discrimination is.

"Cash incentives are being offered to local Liberal Democrat parties who recruit women and people from ethnic minorities to stand for election. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5354548.stm

Acceptable? If you think so, replace' women' with men and 'people from ethnic minorities' with white and then maybe you'll realise how actually racist and sexist it is. Here, in fact i'll do it for you:

"Cash incentives are being offered to local Liberal Democrat parties who recruit men and people from the white population to stand for election"

Now, is this acceptable?...I don't think so and if you do, then you're a racist and/or sexist.

Is this acceptable?:

"Gloucestershire police force has admitted illegally rejecting 108 job applicants because they were white men. The Police Federation said the force has been trying to recruit more female officers and more people from ethnic minorities to meet a government target."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/5369876.stm

They are just two of many examples, I truely hope that you all agree that "positive discrimination" is an awful awful solution to a delicate matter. Encouragment along with strict meritocracy is by far the best way for now and for the future of businesses and for race relations in the United Kingdom.