Discriminatory Ads vs Discriminatory Practices

[mollymeek]

From The Straits Times


A REPUTABLE preschool is seeking a teacher for English and in its newspaper advertisement, it specified 'Caucasian' as a criteria.

Such discriminatory job advertisements are, however, few and far between nowadays, according to the Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (Tafep). [Maybe people are just becoming less

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barbarians

[shallowphil]

Barbarians were not really all that bad. Just German or Swedish guest workers, like much of the foreign talent we have now (minus the raping and pillaging, one hopes).

Stop this discrimination!

Re: barbarians

[mollymeek]

You mean discrimination against barbarians?

Re: barbarians

[shallowphil]

Initially, yes. Now you have raised the question, not so sure.

Re: barbarians

[mollymeek]

Haha. I think the question is whether "the barbarians" refers to the truly barbaric or to a group of people stereotyped as barbarians, (In any case, the barbarians are merely used as an analogy. The phrasing could have been "That's about as good as telling a wolf to behave like a sheep in public even if it still wants to eat the three little pigs.")

Saying "Sentence the person who is found guilty to jail" isn't the same as saying "Sentence anyone who is arrested to jail."

Re: barbarians

[shallowphil]

Stereotyped Barbarians? I think of them as warm and fuzzy. I married one of them once. Just the once.

That last bit you said, it applied in Stalinist Russia, nyet, but surely not in modern Singapore!?

Re: barbarians

[mollymeek]

I didn't say it happened/happens in Singapore!