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Originally Posted by dev
would you call setting targets to have minimum levels of black people working in higher paid jobs racist? i know i would, reason: race is being used to distinguish people.
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I would call that racist, a job should be offered to a person based on the persons qualifications, motivation, ability to do the job and references. It is so easy (and I have seen it with a black person) for an employee to claim they were not given promotion due to their skin colour. In the one experience I have of such a complaint it was due to the woman being lazy and useless, and had nothing to do with her skin colour at all.
If groups or individuals in the workplace segregate themselves by race or religion how can they be treated the same as everyone else. Just because I get along with people in the workplace and muck in on a professional basis, does not mean I agree with their views, religious or moral beliefs.
Its all about making the effort, and when I make the effort and it fails, I do as they want. ie. treat them differently