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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
I personally think there is a persecution complex floating around all ethnic groups. If anything happens its always because of race. Not because they were seen leaving a crack house or 6 months ago they kicked some poor chaps head in. Cry race hate just to get your own way is just plain wrong and imo as racist as someone calling someone names.
The issue of racial discrimination in the work place and respectable areas of life should not be tolerated full stop but again this needs ot be done carefully. There are cases where someone fails to get a job and then says its cuz of race but this has no foundation at all. Its always going to hard to judge when something is racist or not as lets face it the excuse of race has been abused by those the race laws are there to protect
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Discrimination in the workplace does annoy me, I went to HR and spoke out in my last place of employment about it.
A guy who had been working for the company for years had serious stress problems, he had been off work for 6 months and returned. He made a mistake coming back to work full time and was finding it very difficult and wanted to work a 3 day week to see how he got on, and gradually increase his hours. The HR department refused to budge because they said it would make him a 'special case' with changes to his contract that others could also expect.
I pointed out the Asian Pakistani who would only work a maximum of 30 hours a week, and the reply was 'Thats different, its for religious reasons' although I knew it had nothing to do with religious reasons.
The bottom line is society is now controlled by the pc brigade and are afraid to treat everyone the same, unfortunately 'some' asians and blacks play on this situation whilst the rest get on with life.
I was also in a car a few years ago with a black woman who had been drinking wine, in fact the bottle was rolling around on the passenger side. We got stopped and she started ranting at him because he was being racist stopping her and not all the other motorists, she was threatening to report him for racial harrasment and all sorts. The officer just let her on her way, of course stopping her had nothing to do with her dangerous driving it was all about her being black wasn't it !