Positive Discrimination: Right or Wrong?

Christ on a bike you've got a good memory. And I put that in context with my argument that we shouldn't let immigrants into the country who are going to be intolerant towards white people.

No you did not. We were speaking specifically about positive discrimination, and I said the only permissible case would be the police force, as there is a need to preserve ethnic community relations. You were opposed to any form of positive discrimination unconditionally and said it is the responsibility of the community to not be racist and disregard the police officers' ethnicities. I said this is infeasible, and although it is an ideal situation, the reality is that community-police relations are better maintained (the police can do their jobs better, people are more willing to report crimes and be on the police's side, etc.) when the police are representative of the demographics of the community.

What you have said in this thread was my argument to you.

Perhaps my views have changed, then. It does happen.

U-turn... I'm glad you have acquiesced to my views.

Of course I still uphold my view that we should deport any immigrant that is intolerant of people of a different ethnicity.

Teenagers, the overwhelming majority of whom are born here, are typically the most recalcitrant and hostile demographic towards the police.

Wow, you do a brilliant job of putting us all in one big boat of so called "pseudo-liberals". That's your problem, you have an assumptive attitude. It's good that you acknowledge yourself as a bigot. Carry on trying to win your arguments if you like, which, let's be honest, will get you nowhere. Why don't you go out and heckle your MP, why don't you protest in the street? It'll probably get you further to achieving your ideals than criticising us "lefties", as you may call us, on TSR.

I call myself a bigot to satire the hordes of people who call me a bigot, simply for disagreeing with them.

But as to the original topic - Positive Discrimination: Right or Wrong?

Ok yes, but the very fact that you criticise everyone on TSR for being a "pseudo-liberal" as you call it, shows that you are defiantly unwilling to hear other peoples' opinions, bordering on intolerance. Personally, because I think it shows hypocrisy, it disregards your opinions. Just my opinion but good luck.

I believe that positive discrimination is wrong, and everyone should be given the same employment rights, regardless of their race, sexual orientation, gender, disability status etc. But the 2010 Equality Act legislates to allow discrimination in this way (Labour's doing, ofc )

What are your thoughts?

I don't disregard other people's opinions. I just laugh when they have a predetermined set of left wing values, that they utterly fail to justify, and can only back up when losing an argument by calling me a racist.

I disagree based on a recent case of religious positive discrimination in Northern Ireland.
Basically following the peace process in N. Ireland the government established a new police force. Many former RUC officers got massive redundancy payments and happily left the force making way for new recruits. In N. Ireland prior to the 2006 the police force was predominantly Protestant and therefore did not have the trust of the Catholic community so it was decided that 50% of all new recruits must come from Catholic community regardless of the % that apply until the number of PSNI officers in the service reflected the % of Catholics in NI which is around 40%. The old police service only had around 6% of Catholic officers. It worked well and now the PSNI is seen as an impartial police force (for the first time in NI) and it now has the trust, respect etc of the entire community (almost)
So while religion has NOTHING to do with the job it did ensure the police service was representative of the entire community that it served.