BRITISH FOLLIES

An email from a British reader:

Like Americans, we here in Britain are also assailed by PC in all it's lousy, corrosive and often totally farcical ways.

For me, some of the most stupid rules are those governing adoption, where a white couple are not allowed to adopt a black or mixed race child, because of "cultural incompatability" (why is mixed race always classed as black ? - they aren't black at all, usually light brown). So we are witnessing inverse racism, as the attempts to be anti racist are so extreme, that they become racist by default. In fact, very close to the kind of apartheid so long fought against by the great Nelson Mandela.

By constantly drawing attention to the differences between races, and encouraging positive discrimination (conveniently called diversity), the PC brigade are in fact fuelling racism by stoking up resentment against the artificiality of the situation. How often do you see company house magazines with photos of the boss being black and the member of staff white ? Nothing wrong with that situation in reality, but it always has to be portrayed that way, out of fear of offending the minority by showing them in an inferior position. Again, inverse racism by condescension of the most insidious kind - if there weren't an existing sense of white superiority, there would be no need for this crap.

Another one is sexual harassment. Nobody likes the office sex pest (of either gender). Often they are real creeps. But to try and stamp out genuine relationships at work is an attack on the basic freedom of the individual, and one you should not tolerate under any circumstances. In any case, however hard they try, it will never be stamped out. Being a fundamental human instinct, the urge to sex is too strong, even for the corporate PC enforcers. It's called life - grow up !!!

As for sex discrimination, why is the agenda always focused on women ? - what about the discrimination against fathers who have split from their wives, often because the wife has walked, who cannot access their children. Why is the law so heavily weighted in favour of women ? What about the discrimination now so obvious against the middle aged male. Can anybody explain why a young woman aged 30 is so vastly superior to a guy of 52, when it comes to promotion ? No I thought not. But I think you know the pre-determined outcome of that little battle, even before it starts.

One last thing - the USA calls itself the "land of the free". From where I am standing here in England, that freedom seems to be being sucked from Americans more and more. Americans are being systematically regimented. On certain subjects, there was more freedom of speech in the old Soviet Union. .