Am I a "liberal"?

[Kyuuketsuki]

On racism/affirmatiuve action.

Don't believe in that ... I mean it exists but I was negatively affected by it when I was in the ILEA (and I mean in a sense I would consider racist, anti-white racist).

Racism still pervades the uk.Frequent tv documentaries have shown how people with broadly the same qualifications but 1 is white, the other black, have applied for jobs and the white has got the job.

Er ... choosing the white candidate when both are equally qualified isn't racism. Choosing a candidate because he/she is the wrong colour DESPITE having better relevant qualifications might be but as anyone involved in interviewing candidates will tell you qualifications aren't the entire picture. There's a whole slew of factors to consider.

The same thing happens when landlords use agents and tell them to make sure only whites get the tenancy. In the bad old days, landlords could get away with having " no blacks " in their windows...just like America had segregation.

Obviously that is.

Racism is still alive and kicking, that's why legislation was brought in to try to counter it.

Anti-racist laws are, unfortunately necessary, but I believe education is a better way to deal with these things ... witness the fact that we are now (IMO) a far less "ist" society at least on the surface.

Mind you, friend of mine uses a walking stick and apparently gets abuse regularly hurled at him ... I genuinely thought we, as a society, had moved beyond that.

Kyu