Advancing Black Leaders.........

[Apariah]

That is the title of an email my employer has just distributed. Discuss.

[Buenchico]

>>> There's no such thing as "positive discrimination". It's just discrimination

True enough, but is all discrimination necessarily wrong anyway?

For example, employers might 'discriminate' against job candidates with poor communication skills (possibly through a lack of formal education) when seeking staff for their customer services teams. By doing so they end up with employees who can help their customers resolve problems far more easily than those people who were 'discriminated against' could ever hope to do. Such 'discrimination' is both lawful and logical and brings benefits both to the employer and his customers.

So perhaps there might be valid reasons for (so-called) 'positive discrimination' as well?

[NoMercy]

Is that tantamount to discrimination, Chris?

I've been interviewed alongside more experienced candidates but never felt discriminated against when the more experienced candidate got landed the role. That's just the way the cookie crumbles.

[Old_Geezer]

Maling excuses for lowering standards is not acceptable. If you are disadvantaged then the colour of your skin is not the criteria with which to identify it. If you were a disadvantaged white skinned person then you do not deserve to be further passed over because of some racist policy from immoral folk who happen to be in charge. There is no such thing as poitive discrimination. That is simply an attempt to excuse inexcusable behaviour. There is only valid and invalid discrimination. For example if you need heart surgery you'd probably discriminate against a bricklayer being given the job.

[Old_Geezer]

That is precisely why the mobile refused to scroll to the top of the text in the box. It was ensuring that I had no way to check whether it had shoved an error into my perfect typing.

MAKING !

[Apariah]

perhaps i can help here, what kind of nuclear internet explosion would have occurred if the word "black" had been, horror or horrors, say "white" ?

[Mamyalynne]

I think some of the less explosive amongst us would still have asked for the wording of the body of the email.