Comment Re:Can we stop the "War on Discrimination"? (Score 1) 294
Just because you see some people abuse it
It is not "some people" — I gave links showing institutional abuse with kids of certain races being penalized by colleges, for example.
There are legitimate reasons why these laws exist for example
What's so "legitimate" about your example? On the contrary, it is quite illegitimate. The link tells us about an employee allegedly harassed and subsequently fired because of his age... While harassment (of anyone) is wrong, employment is not a "right" and private employers ought to be free to hire and fire anyone for any reason. If a girl can say: "You are too old for me" or "I don't date Jews" — why can't a private employer in a free country base decisions on the same thoughts?
Your link also gives yet another example of Executive's power to extract money and obedience without bothering with the Judiciary — if you celebrate that, then you aren't as "Liberal" as you'd like to think of yourself...
Firstly, people go to Emirates for a different reason, they put up with abuse and lack of human rights so they can save up money and eventually go somewhere else such as United States.
Maybe. But what makes you think, it is the discrimination being illegal, that makes the US so attractive? We were quite a magnet even before that. Can you cite some sort of study among the recent newcomers to the US summarizing their motivations for moving?
No-one is talking about some Affirmative action or racial quotas
Bzzz, false! The entire TFA and the write-up talk about racial quotas — the main accusation against Tata is that its workforce is 95% "South Asian". And my thread-starting post talked about those two kinds of discrimination primarily as well.
Quotas do exist, unfortunately, and it is to meet them that colleges and employers nation-wide lower standards for some races while raising them for others.