I've been given a start date, I'm 41, white and really do not feel any discrimination against me exists. I think it's ridiculous to suggest such a thing. I personally have no idea what minority groups have to put up with and neither does any white male in this country. We've had it too good for too long and now that women and minority groups are wanting a piece of the pie some people feel uncomfortable and threatened. If you're right for the job then you'll get it, white, black, gay, straight or female...as it should be.
You might not feel discrimination against you exists, but I think those turned down from jobs because of things like affirmative action would beg to differ. One
example is BBC applicants who were told that the position they applied for was only for ethnic minorities. Let us also not forget Labour's recent
scandal of banning straight white able-bodied men from a Youth Conference. Both of these were done in the name of representation, because apparently only people of your race or sex can properly represent you, because apparently you belong in a group, you're not an individual human being. It's identity politics at it's worse.
Not to mention, the notion that only minorities can understand the hardships they face and white men will never understand it is racist in itself. It's essentially suggesting that a white man doesn't know of minority hardships because he is white. Judgement based on skin colour. Hypocritically though, the majority of the people putting that notion forward feel that they are fully qualified to represent everyone in that group because, apparently, they know their hardships. The notion of someone not knowing about minority hardships because of their race is ludicrous. They might not have faced it personally, but that doesn't mean you can't understand it.
It's funny how the far-left always complain about racism, sexism and discrimination, yet they themselves are guilty of this. They justify it by saying racism requires power somehow, even though that's not true, and they know that as well. The Americans had a black president for eight years before Donald Trump, but they wouldn't dare apply that logic to someone who they deem oppressed. The fact of the matter is, you cannot say that someone has it good because white people as a whole have had it good, because no two people are the same. It's as if they read 1984 and thought it was a Labour Party manifesto rather than a dystopian novel.
Positive discrimination is fine in my opinion, it attempts to balance out all the racial/sexual discrimination that exists.
Discrimination is the unjust or prejudical treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of sex, race, age or sexual orientation. So the idea of "positive" discrimination is a total oxymoron unless you actually like discrimination. Attempting to balance out discrimination with more discrimination will just create more discrimination.
