So anti-PC we discriminate

Posted by rich, 11 Jul 2008

Good stuff from Barbara Ellen:

Alternatively, maybe it is time to acknowledge a bizarre cultural shift. That far from being a nation of politically correct scaredy-cats, we have all gone too far in the other direction, becoming so kneejerk anti-PC that any legislation to give minorities a much-needed boost is rubbished before it is given a fair hearing. That in our quest to pooh-pooh 'positive discrimination', we have forgotten that negative discrimination, otherwise plain old discrimination, can be quite a lot worse.

Any action that legitimises negative discrimination is unacceptable and should be challenged. There is no basis — none — on which it can ever be right.

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