Peter Sarf
Established Member
My bold. - Carefull that is a bit of a label for us old white males. EDIT - Not having a go at you but it sums up something. /EDITCould be more due to the need to recruit from a wider labour pool than before as the grumpy old white men retire or die off.
It's not true for every employer. I remember a huge furore over the Metropolitan Police's mishandling of the stabbing of that poor black lad in south-east London back in the 1990s - accusations of 'institutional racism and so on. For a time, things did seem to improve with senior policemen launching campaigns to recruit more people from ethnic minorities etc. But now, over 30 years on, it seems the old racist, mysogenist 'canteen culture' reasserted itself once the heat was off.
Some of what we see as prejudice is difficult to dissolve and other parts are not prejudice. For example blacks are more often targeted by police for searches for knives. There are regular complaints about that. But I ask - is that because most stabbings are committed by blacks ?. Two things were pointed out by a black person I asked that to - The police do not stop enough young black males and that most victims of stabbing are black. He said many black people feel let down by the police NOT enforcing laws enough within the black community. He also said he believed a lot of it was educated blacks vs uneducated blacks. Are the police hamstrung by the minority or by the over politically correct majority ?
My point is some things that happen are not prejudice but a simple reaction to reality. However there is also prejudice about prejudice. So "grumpy old white men" is a dangerous label to apply to us senior gents. Not pulling you up on it but it is an example of how we can tie ourselves up in knots.
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