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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I absolutely agree Margaret. Acknowledging our differences is not racist and yet some people insist on seeing it as such. I personally do feel it is more offensive to people to pussyfoot around and have to keep thinking "I can't say this." or "I can't do that." because there is a black, white, Asian, Chinese person here who may take offence. Why can't we treat skin colour and ethnicity in the same way that we treat eye colour and shoe sizes?
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I think it is both patronising, and divisive, that we apparently have three salaried posts on Hyndburn Borough Council, whose primary concern is the welfare of ethnic minorities, and it drives me insane to have a language other than English on both their website and all other offical documents.
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I would also levy the same criticism if HBC employed a designated women's/gay and lesbian/elderly or young person's officer. Community should be about being all inclusive, and not as stated earlier, divisive.