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"Warp" <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote in message
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> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> > Ooo, that would probably *incrase* your changes of being hired - they
> > have to hire a certain percentage of "minority groups" to prove that
> > they are in fact an "equal opportunities employer". (I'm not making this
> > up. Several questions are explicitly marked as being for this purpose.)
>
> That's one of the curious symptoms of the modern western
hypercorrectism:
> You have to discriminate in order to be an "equal opportunity" firm. Quite
> ironically, "equal opportunity" is the politically correct term for "we
> choose some of our employees based on ethnicity and other irrelevant
> details" (which, at the same time, is the definition of racism).
>
If you want really messed up, try South Africa.
It is illegal, forbidden by our constitution, to discriminate against anyone
on the basis of skin colour, gender, religion, sexual preference or
nationality.
It is a requirement of the labour law that all companies employing more than
50 people, have an affirmative action employment policy, whereby jobs are
given by preference to 'previously disadvantaged individuals'
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