Report finds racism rife among gardai

pork99

MG wrote:

Away from the Gardai, I know someone from another "Old Europe" EU country who experiences a small amount of what I call latent racism. This takes the form of slightly unfavourable treatment such as impolite treatment.

This very unfortunate. If ever a country needed help with deepening it's gene pool a bit it's surely Ireland.

landser

pork99 wrote:

This very unfortunate. If ever a country needed help with deepening it's gene pool a bit it's surely Ireland.

did you bother reading the third and fourth paragraphs of MG's post?

MG

MG wrote:

It's crap but that's life unfortunately.

I should probably add to this that it is still not right or ,in many cases, legal.

pork99

landser wrote:

did you bother reading the third and fourth paragraphs of MG's post?

I did but that doesn't invaldate my point. This is a country with some serious pockets of inbreeding - not necessarily in remote places either

landser

pork99 wrote:

I did but that doesn't invaldate my point. This is a country with some serious pockets of inbreeding - not necessarily in remote places either

yeah, your posts have now convinced me of this. :rolleyes:

MG

I'm sorry to say that since writing my last post, my friend rang to me tell of one of the most shocking pieces of "latent racism" that I have ever encountered. Sorry I can't give details as there may be legal action ahead. It involves positive treatment of others, rather than overt racism but in the end it is racism. It also involves an institution which should know better.

landser

MG wrote:

I'm sorry to say that since writing my last post, my friend rang to me tell of one of the most shocking pieces of "latent racism" that I have ever encountered. Sorry I can't give details as there may be legal action ahead. It involves positive treatment of others, rather than overt racism but in the end it is racism. It also involves an institution which should know better.

do you mean positive discrimination? which, by definition is "negative" discrimination against someone. meritocracy, my arse

MG

landser wrote:

do you mean positive discrimination? which, by definition is "negative" discrimination against someone. meritocracy, my arse

Except postitive discrimination is meant to help minorities not majorities.

Imagine Elvis coming third in an Elvis lookalike competition and the judges justifying their decision by saying that they preferred to give the prize to someone who was a local.

I'm embarrassed to be Irish today.

landser

MG wrote:

Except postitive discrimination is meant to help minorities not majorities.

Imagine Elvis coming third in an Elvis lookalike competition and the judges justifying their decision by saying that they preferred to give the prize to someone who was a local.

I'm embarrassed to be Irish today.

positive or not, discrimination is discrimination, no matter how you dress it up.
Anyway, without details of the discrimination, no one can possibly comment on your being embarrassed to be Irish.

coolhandluke

"postitive discrimination" more pc bull**** who day will hopefully soon be ended.