From the GLA’s new leaflet “Equality Impact Assessments (EQIAs) - How to do them” [Page 6]:
“The GLA has defined equality target groups as: women; black and minority; ethnic people; young people and children; older people; disabled people; lesbians; gay men; bisexuals; trans people and people from different faith groups.
The equality areas, or strands as they are commonly called, are gender, race, disability, age, faith and sexuality. The strands are
inclusive of all people.”
Not only is this yet another self-parodying PC paragraphs (”trans people”, “different faiths” - different from what?) but white able bodied heterosexual men are not on the list. Where are they? Where is the “strand” which is addressing the needs of (white) men? Who is making sure that their medical needs are not underfunded, who is fighting the severe discrimination against them in the family courts? Who is fighting the discrimination against them in the Criminal Justice System and increasingly, in employment, care provision, housing and other services? Not the GLA and not the non-existent Minister For Men.
I also noticed this in a section of the leaflet where they try and justify these targeted (i.e discriminatory and unbalanced) campaigns:
“A targeted training programme for black and minority ethnic women would have a positive differential impact on black and minority ethnic women, compared with its impact on white women and all men. It would not, however, necessarily have an adverse impact on white women or men.”
Not neccisarily. But this tries to disguise the fact that if I allocate resources to one ethnic group only, the others will neccisarily lose out. This is clear cut racial discrimination in that on the basis of race alone, I think some women deserve a course but other do not and I allocate my resources accordingly.
It looks to me like the GLA are trying to make a positive impact on disadvantaged groups -which is a noble objective. Unfortunately, their criteria for resource allocation are crude, exclusive and racist. But what would you expect from an organisation that has Lee “Black Power” Jaspers, a proponent of separatism as in charge of “equality”?
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