[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I just find the political correctness crazy, and the way we bend over backwards to accommodate ethnic practices borders on reverse racism.

It isn't reverse racism. It IS racism pure and simple. Anything which makes a detrimental racial distinction against any race is racism.

If there are rules for one section of society which do not apply to another section of society because of their race then that is racism.

If I didn't employ a black person purely because they are black that would make me a racist. Equally if a black employer wouldn't hire me because I am white that too is racist.

The same applies in my opinion if someone is employed not purely on merit but gets a few extra "brownie points" for being from a minority group of any kind. Everyone should be taken on their own individual merit, nothing more and nothing less.