i love my country
but what a bunch of idiots it contains.
apparently in new york city there's a welsh pub that put out a job ad for some position or other and said they were looking for someone who knows welsh and british culture. new york city has now decided that that's discrimination. the owners did not say only british people could apply. they were looking for someone with a certain skill set. yet here's the wonderful conclusion of the city:
"Cliff Mulqueen, general counsel of the New York City Commission of Human Rights, said: "There's an argument that someone who works in a Chinese restaurant, for example, may need to speak Chinese in order to communicate with their co-workers.
"But there's a difference between saying you have to speak Chinese and saying you have to be Chinese.
"The point is that she posted an ad that is discriminatory because she is expressing a preference for one group of people over another."" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22430910
first of all, how is the chinese thing different from the welsh thing, and second of all, yeah, it's bad to express preference for a group that knows something about a job over a group that doesn't. i think i'd like to apply for and land the job of that guy's heart surgeon.
apparently in new york city there's a welsh pub that put out a job ad for some position or other and said they were looking for someone who knows welsh and british culture. new york city has now decided that that's discrimination. the owners did not say only british people could apply. they were looking for someone with a certain skill set. yet here's the wonderful conclusion of the city:
"Cliff Mulqueen, general counsel of the New York City Commission of Human Rights, said: "There's an argument that someone who works in a Chinese restaurant, for example, may need to speak Chinese in order to communicate with their co-workers.
"But there's a difference between saying you have to speak Chinese and saying you have to be Chinese.
"The point is that she posted an ad that is discriminatory because she is expressing a preference for one group of people over another."" - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22430910
first of all, how is the chinese thing different from the welsh thing, and second of all, yeah, it's bad to express preference for a group that knows something about a job over a group that doesn't. i think i'd like to apply for and land the job of that guy's heart surgeon.
posted by melilotnfosco | 4:53 PM
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I'm confused. It sounded to me like he was proving your point. So how did he arrive at that conclusion then? Weird. And this is why we should have as few laws as possible and as few people "in charge" as possible. And I'm not sure I ever want to travel to New York these days... (well, yeah, I still would)
Also, all these laws? (That are so ridiculous) Along with TV, drugs, etc., they're continuing to dumb down the population. What happened to thinking for yourself? Sigh. We've become a bunch of wimps. So scared of anything that we outlaw everything. That's reflected in our foreign policy too, of course. So scared of anything that we try to manipulate everything and end up making ourselves weaker. Now, that is irony. I think. :)
that guy was totally contradicting himself and defending the defendants. idiot. (well, smart enough to know how things should be, stupid enough to not know how to apply it.) i want to go to new york patronize this place. (and by patronize i mean patronize, not patronize.)
and yes, it's all part of the dumbing down of society which is leading to totalitarianism. it's great.
Yeah, what she said.
so this is what the fb post was about - i tried looking at the link, but it didn't specify this incident.
i agree with everything you said.
what fb post?
that you posted yesterday
you're such a stalker. that only comes up on stalker-feed, doesn't it?
ok, it wasn't a post. it was a comment on their page. generally that stuff doesn't come up on mine because my stalker-feed is very limited but occasionally something will slip through.
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