White Male privilege

[Halibut]

I have never stated that white males were being excluded from the police forces, as you are well aware.

 

I did say that people were being excluded, on the basis of their ethnic group and sex, from competing effectively for employment.

 

Barriers of race and sex have been deliberately imposed to deny access to the same rights, opportunities and facilities available to those who meet the eligible criteria.

 

Why do you believe that excluding people on racist and sexist grounds is acceptable?

 

Do you feel that the colour of a person's skin or sex is more important than the content of their character?

 

Hey Car Boot, you seem to have missed my question about the 'Taking a knee' protests in the USA. What's your view on that?

[Car Boot]

Hey Car Boot, you seem to have missed my question about the 'Taking a knee' protests in the USA. What's your view on that?

 

Hey Halibut.

 

You seem to have missed my even earlier question asking why do you believe that excluding people on such racist and sexist grounds is both acceptable and desirable?

 

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Why do you not think the police force should represent the community it serves?

 

I do believe that the police service should represent the community it serves. It can do this by recruiting the best applicants from the community based on ability - not skin colour.

 

Do you think skin colour is more important than an actual ability to do a job when recruiting employee's?

[Halibut]

What do you think about the 'Taking a knee' protests? Third time of asking - beginning to get the impression you may be dodging the question.

[Andbreathe]

 

I do believe that the police service should represent the community it serves. It can do this by recruiting the best applicants from the community based on ability - not skin colour.

 

 

So...If the institution is predominantly white you think that's good enough reason to think that all those predominant Whites haven't been employed because of discrimination at the expense of ethnic minorities?

To sum up you think the police isn't a racist white male predominant institution and is incapable of discrimination?

 

Also..Do you believe discrimination within any institution exists?

[Jonny5]

What do you think about the 'Taking a knee' protests? Third time of asking - beginning to get the impression you may be dodging the question.

Says the king of answering a question with a question

 

You ducked more questions than Theresa May.

[Cyclone]

So...If the institution is predominantly white you think that's good enough reason to think that all those predominant Whites haven't been employed because of discrimination at the expense of ethnic minorities?

To sum up you think the police isn't a racist white male predominant institution and is incapable of discrimination?

 

Also..Do you believe discrimination within any institution exists?

 

"The police" isn't an organisation, but some police forces have been well documented to have racist recruitment problems and generally racism problems. Take the Met for example.

 

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I dont need to google anything you fools. Just because its un politically correct to make an observation doesnt mean its not true.

What's the answer then clever guy?

You're off your rocker cover if you cant see through OBSERVATION and the world around us we are all different. Just an excuse to politicise everything. Ofcourse any scientist that dared to say we are different would just get strung up anyway so why would they?

 

Oh, so you don't need no expert scientist to answer the question about genetics.

You can answer it by simply making huge assumptions, and to boot if anyone contradicts you, you'll declare it to be a PC colourwash.

Ironic. You posted a question about the genetic differences between people of different colour and now you're too scared to go and find the answer.

[Car Boot]

So...If the institution is predominantly white you think that's good enough reason to think that all those predominant Whites haven't been employed because of discrimination at the expense of ethnic minorities?

 

If an organisation is predominantly white it doesn't necessarily mean that ethnic minorities have been deliberately excluded. There are some sectors which have attracted only a small number of ethnic minority recruits, such as production agriculture, and the reasons for this are complex but may indeed include an element of discrimination.

 

To sum up you think the police isn't a racist white male predominant institution and is incapable of discrimination?

 

I do think that the police historically recruited from the largest ethnic group in society and I also believe that the police are now institutionally racist. The BTP are just the latest police service to demonstrate this. Discriminating against job applicants on the basis of their sex and colour of skin is horrifying and clearly shows the twisted, racist mentality of those at the top of this once respected institution.

 

Also..Do you believe discrimination within any institution exists?

Of course I do. I have already mentioned the police service excluding job applicants from training sessions due to them having the wrong skin colour and being the wrong sex. This is legalised discrimination and all who believe in equality and inclusivity will oppose it.

[Cyclone]

Ironic that you think that encouraging participation from females and minority backgrounds is "institutional racism" when quite a few police forces have had real institutional racism and sexism problems.

Maybe horrifying actually instead of ironic. You're so invested in your white male privilege that you see attempts to level the playing field as an attack on yourself.

[Halibut]

Hey Halibut.

 

You seem to have missed my even earlier question asking why do you believe that excluding people on such racist and sexist grounds is both acceptable and desirable?

 

 

Encouaraging women and ethnic minorities is a good thing and white males aren't excluded from the police force, so that's as close as you're going to get to an answer on that from me.

 

Now, what's your view on 'taking a knee'?

[Car Boot]

Ironic that you think that encouraging participation from females and minority backgrounds is "institutional racism" when quite a few police forces have had real institutional racism and sexism problems.

 

'Encouraging participation', as you delightfully put it, means excluding those who don't meet the eligibility criteria on race and sex - through no fault of their own.

 

Encouraging participation shouldn't mean racial and sexual discrimination, but in this case it does. Either we have equality for all - or we have equality for none.

 

Maybe horrifying actually instead of ironic. You're so invested in your white male privilege that you see attempts to level the playing field as an attack on yourself.

 

I have no desire to join the police. I simply believe that people shouldn't be judged on the colour of their skin, or their sex. I know that is unfashionable today, but so be it.

 

I think that employers, such as the British Transport Police, who evaluate and reward differences in skin colour and sex during the job application process do not support equality of opportunity for all.

 

Those who are excluded from these training sessions on the grounds of their race and sex will likely become dissatisfied and resentful, resulting in reduced effort and performance. So no level playing field there.

 

Do you think that skin colour and sex are the most important attributes when it comes to the ability to do a job?