When is racial discrimination not racial discrimination?

24/11/2011 by Ted.

From the telegraph.

Hundreds more young black men are in prison than attending the country’s leading universities, the Deputy Prime Minister will warn today, as he issues a fresh call to end racial discrimination.

The Liberal Democrat leader will indicate that positive discrimination is operating in the public sector, saying that men from ethnic minorities now earn more than their white counterparts.

What on earth is Clegg implying in the first paragraph - that young black men who apply for entry to a top University are through racial prejudice sent to prison instead - or that the correct thing for a young black person who commits a crime worthy of prison is for positive discrimination to entitle him to be enrolled at a top University instead?

In the second paragraph, according to confused Clegg,  Government sponsored racial discrimination is apparently quite legal and above board if it is in favour of a member of an ethnic minority.  He doesn’t seem to appreciate that racial discrimination in favour of the ethnic minority is illegal racial discrimination against the entire ethnic majority. 

I find it quite frightening that any member of the British Government is allowed to hold and publicly expound such ill-considered maverick, contradictory and bigoted views and get away with it.

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