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In the legal sense I meant (it is not allowed). And very few people are intentionally of consciously discriminating. I wanted to contrast that to practice: huma
by brnt 6y ago
In the legal sense I meant (it is not allowed). And very few people are intentionally of consciously discriminating. I wanted to contrast that to practice: human features that gatekeep people of color and so on. Hope its clear now.
- pjc50 6y agoToday's twitter row is the "cancellation" of a history broadcaster for using the phrase "so many damn blacks" in a video, which is probably not a criminal offence Mark Meechan notwithstanding, but is definitely unambiguously racism. Employment discrimination and the set of things covered by equalities law is the _beginning_ of tackling racism, not the end.
- brnt 6y agoYet it is my experience that many whites think the law forbidding it is the end of the problem. Which is the issue I was trying to raise.