Brickbat: White Like Me

Matthew Furlong will join the Cheshire police department in England after a tribunal found the department discriminated against him in hiring because he is white and heterosexual. Furlong, who has has a degree in physics, reportedly aced the interview before being rejected because the department was using "positive discrimination" to increase the number of non-whites and sexual minorities in its ranks. The tribunal said such measures can only be used to decide between equally qualified candidates. Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke said the department will change its hiring policies as a result of the tribunal ruling but said the policy of positive discrimination was put in place "with the best of intentions."

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[SIV]

Fag Cop

[loveconstitution1789]

"...but said the policy of positive discrimination was put in place "with the best of intentions."

Because non-White people cannot possibly "ace" their interview or otherwise be outstanding candidates to get hired.

Jesus, these Nanny-State Socialists and treating non-Whites like little kids.

[Longtobefree]

The socialists in 1930's Germany were eliminating deplorables with the best of intentions - - - -

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Know what else has the best of intentions?

[Marcus Aurelius]

Contra Kai Dojo?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I nicked that lorry with the best of intentions.

[Still Curmudgeoned (Nunya)]

My British idioms fail me sometimes. Do you mean you got it for a good price, or you got it for a really good price (stolen)? Not that it matters if you are non-white with good intentions, positive discrimination and all that.

[Griffin3]

nicked = stole
lorry = truck
britishers who once had invaded 137 out of the 193 countries in the League of Nations, but now cannot be trusted with knives that are pointy = poofters

[croaker]

They don't have the balls to be poofters.

[loveconstitution1789]

Fist always has the best of intentions---

[Conchfritters]

"positive discrimination"

That’s literally the same argument they made in the Jim Crow South - it was for their own good. No one who practiced discrimination at the time painted it as any sort of bad thing, it was positive.

[Leo Kovalensky II]

C'mon, it says positive right there in the name! How could it be bad?

[Conchfritters]

The graduate, who has a degree in particle physics and cosmology

Turned down a job with the vaunted British space program in order to be a cop.

[Marcus Aurelius]

No room in STEM for whitey anymore, but no grievance tribunal there.

[Ron]

What British space program.

[croaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htBLkSE0Acw

[Juice]

Phew. At least he can put that physics degree to good use arresting people who don't have their TV and butter knife licenses.

[Still Curmudgeoned (Nunya)]

Funny for all the wrong reasons.

[Ron]

don't joke to much I think its Illinois is thinking of taxing satalite tv now

[Ed Grinberg]

Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke...said the policy of positive discrimination was put in place "with the best of intentions."

So was the Holocaust.

[Don't look at me!]

We don’t want the best people, we want the correct ones.

[IceTrey]

Guy is too smart to be a cop. He'll quit soon because police work is boring most of the time.

[Bubba Jones]

This is the real issue.

He's an overeducated brainiac who has now sued himself into a job as a cop. That will go well.

[Uncle Jay]

""positive discrimination?"
That's an oxymoron like "intelligent progressive."

[Mickey Rat]

Discrimination is the most unforgivable sin. Unless it is discrimination against straight white males, then it is well intentioned.

If white males are so damned scary powerful, how has it come to this?

[croaker]

Hey, at least he wasn't dropped for scoring too high on the intelligence test...