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Originally Posted by Maggy
Solutions? Some practical ways to ensure equality for all disenfranchised groups? Apart from a government actually insisting that everyone gets the same treatment whatever the situation,might be a start.
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There's a train of thought that says that treating someone equally isn't the same thing as treating them the same way. This is why you, for example, get different qualifying conditions for job applications from minorities to encourage them to apply where they are under represented and to try to level out injustices of the past.
I think that doing this causes more problems than it solves though; apart from for disabled people who could need special treatment for practical reasons eg if a non disabled person asked a supermarket to carry their shopping for them to their car, they would probably be refused on the grounds that it was a cash & carry outlet. However, someone with a disability that required extra help would be legally entitled to receive this extra help.
This leads to the disabled person obtaining a superior service, but it would be appropriate to do so.
I don't think that race should lead to any more (or less) favourable treatment. It fuels and causes resentment etc and outweighs any positives that arise from such measures.
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Originally Posted by richard s
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We are going to end up in a situation where nobody dare represent black people on their products (in the same way that many are now too afraid to mention them in conversation for fear of saying the 'wrong' thing).
Blanking them out and pretending that they no longer exist is hardly going to help matters.