Is this the thought police at work again?

[Hammer-Head]

Why on Earth should this woman have been sacked for this. She was merely expressing a personal preference that she didn't want an asian driver. Fair enough in my opinion, as she was paying (presumably) and the customer is always right. The BBC should be ashamed of themselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/772 1813.stm

[legendis.god]

What a lot of bollox.

She was wrong endof.
And as long as nazi fascistic scum think thats ok , welll then its masd.

If youre included in the nazi scum hang your head

[sp1814]

R1Geezer

But that's a personal prejudice - which is as false as saying "I don't want a white male driver, because you couldn't trust them with a 14 year old girl...she'd be raped in seconds of stepping through the door"

[legendis.god]

personally i tghink she should have been stoned to death in the old christian tradition

and maybe her child sacrificed to god


enough of these foreigners dictating


make her sufffer




idiots : )

[debbz1969]

Why has that swung off topic? Maybe because you can't argue that point. It is bang on topic. So now you're saying jokes are OK, because they are humorous. Doesn't matter if someone, somewhere MAY find it offensive, because it's a joke it isn't meant to cause offense.
That is the DOUBLE STANDARDS that Im was talking about.

[legendis.god]

rubbish total rubbish.



did that help ?�'

[blackalbino]

come on lets be honest had it been the other way around there would've been men on horses,wearing white hoods with burning crosses!

[naomi24]

I can't see why an Asian driver would freak a 14 year old out. Where's this girl been all her life? What possible difference can it make who drives her in a taxi, as long as he's a bona fide taxi driver from an established company? Ridiculous woman!

[terambulan]

Agree with the lady having a 'choice' as to who drives her young daughter, but its not racism.

There are special schools for asian girls & children as their faith leaders object to their children being educated in state schools. Uniforms et al are discriminated against by asians in state schools, etc. That is seen as choice and not racism.

Another case of the pc bending backwards to appease our asians, and our asians taking the opportunity to chastise the successful.

[blackalbino]

in this time of mixed cultures,integration etc.... one can only assume that the person in question is from a part of the country where so called ''FOREIGNERS'' are rare (unlikely in my oppinion) or maybe her parents,family,friends have taught her racist values (very likely in my oppinion) because with ignorance hate and lack of knowledge comes fear....

[jno]

so it's PC gone mad, terambulan?

[keyplus90]

I do not have anything to say as many has already said all the possible things. Just keep on ignoring Geezer as you are doing so far as he is a known racist any way. If they (drivers) take you for goose chase then you should spend your time and energy fighting against that and against bad inspectors. However in London majority of the black cab drivers are white. few of them would take you from Regent street to Oxford street via Acton town. But that does not mean all of them are like that.

Two things are destroying this country as well as society more than any thing else. Abuse of freedom of speech and human rights.

[weeal]

I come from a part of my country where 'foreigners' are rare, I am sure there are many like that.

Terambulan does have a valid point there!

[blackalbino]

but are ''foreigners'' rare in bristol where this happened..........I THINK NOT!

[R1Geezer]

Now look what you've done! Woken up our rep from the religion of peace!

[blackalbino]

religion of peace? i think all of them have contributed to murder etc at some point? so what the hell are you talking about?

[legendis.god]

Ignorance breeds hate.

And theres a great degree of ignorance on this thread .

Any bnp members here perchance?



Idiots and thugs , undeserving of a vote , worthy of targeted execution.Rid the country of the bnp scum .

[R1Geezer]

well the BNP seem more tolerant than you lefties, "targetted exceution"?? for what having the temerity to disagree with the holy lefty mantra, purlease!

[sp1814]

debbz1969

You changed the subject to jokes. The point of the original question is whether this woman was expressing a personal preference.

Did you see my post pointing out the difference between merely expressing a personal preference and using preferences to (badly) disguise racist attitudes?

Okay...let's simply the whole question - is it acceptable to refuse to employ someone based on their religious or racial background?

Even if there is absolutely no reason to?

Is that personal prejudice or racism?

[sp1814]

Sorry - that should've read:

Is that personal preference or racism?

[weeal]

whatever folk decide to do it is personal choice

just some folk call it something different when convenient