Is The Bbc Institutionally Racist?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3621658/BBC-turn-trainees-WHITE-Job-applicants-stunned-told-corporation-wants-people-ethnic-minority-backgrounds.html

[THECORBYLOON]

From the Equality Act 2010

The following characteristics are protected characteristics—
age;
disability;
gender reassignment;
marriage and civil partnership;
pregnancy and maternity;
race;
religion or belief;
sex;
sexual orientation.


Positive action: recruitment and promotion

(1)This section applies if a person (P) reasonably thinks that—
(a)persons who share a protected characteristic suffer a disadvantage connected to the characteristic, or
(b)participation in an activity by persons who share a protected characteristic is disproportionately low.
(2)Part 5 (work) does not prohibit P from taking action within subsection (3) with the aim of enabling or encouraging persons who share the protected characteristic to—
(a)overcome or minimise that disadvantage, or
(b)participate in that activity.
(3)That action is treating a person (A) more favourably in connection with recruitment or promotion than another person (B) because A has the protected characteristic but B does not.
(4)But subsection (2) applies only if—
(a)A is as qualified as B to be recruited or promoted,
(b)P does not have a policy of treating persons who share the protected characteristic more favourably in connection with recruitment or promotion than persons who do not share it, and
(c)taking the action in question is a proportionate means of achieving the aim referred to in subsection (2).
(5)“Recruitment” means a process for deciding whether to—
(a)offer employment to a person,
(b)make contract work available to a contract worker,
(c)offer a person a position as a partner in a firm or proposed firm,
(d)offer a person a position as a member of an LLP or proposed LLP,
(e)offer a person a pupillage or tenancy in barristers' chambers,
(f)take a person as an advocate's devil or offer a person membership of an advocate's stable,
(g)offer a person an appointment to a personal office,
h)offer a person an appointment to a public office, recommend a person for such an appointment or approve a person's appointment to a public office, or
(i)offer a person a service for finding employment.
(6)This section does not enable P to do anything that is prohibited by or under an enactment other than this Act.

[jomifl]

Of course it is racism SP, surely you can recognize it haveng experienced it so much?

[THECORBYLOON]

The Equality Act allows "positive action" as shown above

[jomifl]

It's still racism Corby.. who decides how many of what?

[Prudie]

I don't know if that's racist but the BBC go out of their way to be the most pink, fluffy and lefty institution they can be.

[THECORBYLOON]

JOMIFL, racism is unlawful, positive action as described by the Act is clearly lawful and therefore allowed. You may not agree with positive action but it is permitted.

[ToraToraTora]

SP: "TTT
Out of interest - how would you tackle the racism that faces candidates (where they have non-white sounding names)? " - There is no evidence of racism, if the candidates are not up to scratch then they are weeded out. Even if it does exist then is polar opposite "racism" or "positive" discrimination any better?

[naomi24]

THECORBYLOON, what you call 'positive action' is racism, pure and simple. If members of ethnic minorities weren’t so eager to play the race card at every perceived slight they would have a better chance of gaining equal opportunities. Why are they surprised that employers regard them with caution? They are their own worst enemies. SP take note.

[THECORBYLOON]

NAOMI it is not me calling it "positive action" it is the term used in the 2010 Act.

[naomi24]

THECORBYLOON, I don't care who coined the phrase - it's racism.

[Svejk]

Got to laugh at Sp. He seems to think there's a shortage of gay scriptwriters at the BBC.

[THECORBYLOON]

Can you name a few of the many gay scriptwriters?

[Svejk]

And anyone who ever sat through a R4 afternoon drama scripted by a black person will be painfully aware they just can't write.

[Svejk]

You name the straight ones.

[THECORBYLOON]

I must have missed it when they announce the colour of the writers...

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not me who made the assertion so I'll leave it to you.

[Svejk]

THECORBYLOON ///I must have missed it when they announce the colour of the writers...///

Actually, they do, often, announce their colour. But trust me, even if they didn't, you'd know.

Alan Bennett. Get in there.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is he not white?

[Hypognosis]

There has always been the opportunity to commission works to appeal to (or just realistically represent) minority groups and, I dare say, white writers would instinctively back away from such a project, fully aware of their lack of insight.

So it seems a sad state of affairs that they have to offer a training programne to encourage the next generation of writers.

I mean what if society became so purged of discrimination against minorities that they had nothing much to write about which wasn't merely "common experience" for all ethnicities?

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Please keep on track as you are always telling others to do.