- Dec 27, 2014
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Ridiculous. The whole "positive discrimination" thing does nothing to help BME people whether it be those applying for England manager or just regular jobs working for the police etc. All it does is breed resentment in my experience because, as @Shadydan says, any BME person in a job is automatically seen by others as only having got the job to make up the quota etc. and people being turned down for jobs often end up with the attitude of "I bet I'd have been given the job if I was black" etc.
I'm not saying that's right, in fact I think it's awful that people think like that, but in my experience that's often how these things end up being in the workplace and ordinarily rational and non-racist people end up drifting that way out of bitterness. People should be given jobs on merit. End of. Positive discrimination, if anything, just breeds more racism due to all the resentment and jealousy IMO.
I'm not saying that's right, in fact I think it's awful that people think like that, but in my experience that's often how these things end up being in the workplace and ordinarily rational and non-racist people end up drifting that way out of bitterness. People should be given jobs on merit. End of. Positive discrimination, if anything, just breeds more racism due to all the resentment and jealousy IMO.