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Originally Posted by ZrByte
So your saying its ok to discriminate to accomodate old fashioned (Lets face it biggoted) people?? 
By your reasoning black people also should not be allowed on the force because there are some people who are racist, and as such wouldnt be comfortable with a black officer.
Im really not trying to start an argument here but what you said above makes little sense to me. |
Your reasoning is flawed. For a start, I don't see how you see equivalence between age, 'old fashioned' attitudes and bigotry. You can be, or have, any one of those things without being all three. I reject absolutely the notion that someone who believes the way something was done in the past is better than the way it is done now is a 'bigot'. I'm afraid the accusation of bigotry is all too easily thrown around by people who simply can't respect someone for having a different opinion.
Secondly, you try to make the big issue of race equivalent to a relatively trivial issue like the wearing of an ear ring, which is a little bizarre. In an ideal world, all police officers would be of a type of person who is absolutely unable to cause offence to anyone, and who naturally exudes authority and demands respect. Such a person does not exist. So, what we must do instead is look at what we've got and decide how best to make use of it.
Race is an issue for, I hope, a minority of people across all communities and age groups, but it cuts in every direction - blacks may not trust whites, whites may think blacks are inferior, and so on. Given the complexity of the problem, the solution is to ensure the police force is properly representative of races in the UK.
Ear rings - well, this is on a completely different scale. A man can't change the colour of his skin. Nor should he have to. But he can take an ear ring out of his ear for the few hours he is on duty if it makes community relations easier.