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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Proving racial discrimination in employment recruitment practices isn't, if you'll excuse the pun, that black and white.
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I do or should I say did, know a company in Cardiff about 4/5 years ago that would only employ people of Pakistani origin. I knew that at the time because it was a very lucrative job that my ex-girlfriends next door neighbour worked for.
I had been made redundant and fancied something temporary during the bad weather to push my planned 6 months sabatical until the nicer weather. I asked the neighbour who politely pointed out that they only employed people of Pakistani origin, I later discovered that this was in fact true and no-one else in that line of business ever bothered to ask that company about a job if they were not of Pakistani origin.
There are lots of discriminating organisations about, if you were to set up something advertised as only assisting white UK born people it would be racist. However we can have organisations like EBSP (Ethnis Business Support Programme) who are able to discriminate against those they choose.
It shouldn't be about scoring points, by setting up organisations to assist one group of ethnic, religious or skin colour minority it should not be allowed. We should instead concentrate on fair treatment for all.