Positive Discrimination - Positive Action

[cajar]

No, you said very clearly you supported positive discrimination, not positive action. Now you are backpedalling since you've discovered the equality brigade have dropped positive discrimination.

 

[RogueHanger]

No, you said very clearly you supported positive discrimination, not positive action. Now you are backpedalling since you've discovered the equality brigade have dropped positive discrimination.

So, to avoid any confusion in anyone's mind in the future, kindly clarify the difference between positive discrimination and positive action.

 

[Dextraneous]

Is this thread still going? Crikey

 

[Whitespirit66]

Coathanger's only just got started.

 

[Big Tone]

To be fair and impartial, and because I've been there, when you've got a dozen posters on your case and you go away briefly there's only so much you can do and ways to both absorb a million replies and reply to anyone's satisfaction. Just a general point on every GD forum I've been on.

I would expect everyone here will know that and will have 'been there' when wresting on a bone of contention..

 

[RogueHanger]

I think I'm coping, and I'm very comfortable with it.

I even have my next two responses lined up for cajar. One of them is of course a Shakespearean quotation.
Sorry, edit: I also have my next response lined up fo him on the golf shop question he asked, when he next responds on that topic.

 

[Big Tone]

I don't know where you get the time and energy. I'm usually kicked-back watching telly now, or in a book, havin' a tipple. (I just know someone's gunna throw that in my face one day)...

 

[joe-90]

HR has got lots of time because he lives in the world's most xenophobic country and it's getting to him. No friends and neighbours that would like to shoot him.

 

[RogueHanger]

I don't know where you get the time and energy. I'm usually kicked-back watching telly now, or in a book, havin' a tipple. (I just know someone's gunna throw that in my face one day)...

It's Easter so apart from a hectic day yesterday, and another few in the next few days, socialising, I'm not doing my usual hobby in the evenings for a few days.
Although I do want to get back to my book, and I was up watching Sky, F1 this morning, but cajar is metaphorically backing himself into a corner, so his next move is almost predictable and I'm waiting for him. Only because of his very supercilious attitude earlier.

 

[RogueHanger]

No friends and neighbours that would like to shoot him.

Spot on, joe. None of my friends or neighbours want to shoot me. The chasse doesn't start until September.

 

[Big Tone]

Ah, punctuation and word play. Now there's something only the English language can do well'ish.

Eats shoots and leaves...

 

[RogueHanger]

Ah, punctuation and word play. Now there's something only the English language can do well'ish.

Eats shoots and leaves...

I think I'll join you. I had a skinful last night, but I fancy a glass of red, or two, or three, or more.....


I'd best stop there, otherwise Dex will be going green.



Wrong quote! It should have been your "tipple" comment. And I've not started drinking yet!

But as that quote is there, I quite like some of the French sayings, double entendre, esprit d'escalier, etc.
Oh, and of couse, san fairy ann

 

[JBR]

I see racism in discussions like these. If I stated that most kiddie fiddlers are white males I'd be stating a fact and no one would complain that I'm racist. If someone states another statistic involving blacks in not such a good light the do gooders get a right huff on and call you racist. Why??

All races have their faults.
All races have their good points.

Unfortunately, for some reason it is not acceptable to point some of these out. There are those who would have us believe that we are all the same. A ridiculous suggestion.

This is why I am always careful to explain my belief that we should all have equal opportunities, rather than to suggest we are all equal. We are not and never will be: we are all different.

I'm
Okay with that to a point JBR. But then you get into the realms of feeling superior over someone with a disability or gender difference. And before you know it, we're back in the dark ages.

Did the word 'superior' cross my lips?

I said 'different' and different races are different in some ways. An example was already pointed out by someone earlier: that the best runners are black men. Surely, doesn't that makes them superior to other races?

I wasn't putting words in your mouth but the inference was/is that if we're not all equal then, de facto, does that not mean one is inferior and therefore the other superior? What and how do you mean by "not equal"? I'm just asking; I may or may not agree with you if I understand...

We are all equal. It's just that some are more equal than others!

It's simple really.

In my experience, the best runners are very often black men. That makes them superior, in that respect, to most white men and I freely admit to being inferior to them.

Looking back in history, the most innovative inventors have been white men (very often British, in fact) so in that respect they are superior to other races.

If you want to use the words 'superior' and 'inferior', then, you have to specify in what respect.

 

[Norcon]

And the worlds strongest men have always been whites.

 

[RogueHanger]

Looking back in history, the most innovative inventors have been white men (very often British, in fact) so in that respect they are superior to other races.

A preponderance of scottish people perhaps?