Originally Posted by The Bear

Affirmative action to ensure proportionate representation by people of different ethnicity where it is otherwise distorted is not racism, it is the right and proper thing to do.

It only ceases to be if the affirmative action results in a person who is not best fitted to fill a particular vacancy is appointed over a person who is better fitted.

Where racism is endemic, institutionalised, or traditional then measures to eliminate it must be applied, especially where public facing roles are involved.

If that means that an intake of people is restricted to people of a particular ethnicity in order to correct the distortion past racism has created then so long as all other factors besides ethnicity are not changed then that is exactly the correct course of action to be taken.

The idea that Britain is a “white” nation is long past.

Today Britain is a multiethnic nation, and being English does NOT mean being white.

Get used to it.