Comments on: Positive Discrimination? There’s No Such Thing!

By: Concerned

Concerned — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:53:21 +0000

Quote:
“What this sort of “positive discrimination” does is prevent the best person for the job from getting it, regardless of their race or gender”

Unfortunately, if you are an ethnic minority and you are the best person for the job still you will not get it in most of the cases. aPrejudice is still alive and kicking….

By: ThunderDragon

ThunderDragon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:24:15 +0000

Now that’s just ridiculous, Baht At.

Pretty much all of my old department and half of my current one are women, and there is no backstabbing at all.

By: Baht At

Baht At — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:26:01 +0000

This is silly everyone knows that if you have more than one woman in an office they start backstabbing each other.

By: DuSanne

DuSanne — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:53:32 +0000

Harman, and her boss belong to a different generation, fight yesterday’s wars and the pope remains, to the best of my knowledge, Catholic (check with Cranmer who keeps an eye on these things).

Just like the London campaign with Boris, the last refuge of the desperate Labourite is to try and salami-slice the electorate. That attempt failed, and this one goes way beyond pathetic.

As an aside, I’m curious about is the BBC (Radio 4) hourly quoted example in their news spots of “a primary school with too few male teachers” who could discriminate in favour of a male candidate. Is this what the proposed legislation actually says? because it didn’t sound like it when Harthing gave her side of things. I know the proposed EU Constitution used the term ‘under-represented sex’ (not sure about the Lisbon rehash) but I suspect the subtlety of this fairly unsubtle point may be beyond Harman and her ilk.