I wrote here last week about how UK hate crime law is de facto two-tier, since our state is chiefly interested in pursuing such laws in order to punish alleged racism by white people, while tending to ignore it when it comes from ethnic minorities. This reflects a far wider feature of two-tier Britain: by intent and in practice, if not by its letter, anti-discrimination and equalities legislation only protects minorities. Think, for instance, of the white male would-be RAF pilots now forced to hawk their services to the Chinese after hundreds were rejected from joining the hallowed ranks of The Few, not for lack of skill or pluck, but due to their being insufficiently diverse. The fact that so-called positive discrimination is illegal did not prevent it from happening to these “useless white male pilots”.
Another feature of national life that has become subject to discrimination protections is housing. Indeed, we are so anxious to avoid even the faintest whiff of racial favouritism in housing that since the Race Relations Act 1976, it has been illegal for local authorities and housing associations to favour locally born families when allocating housing. Under this law, not treating someone whose can trace their ancestry back to the Domesday book as equivalent to a newly arrived Lahore taxi-driver would constitute ‘indirect discrimination‘. This is a major factor behind the extraordinary statistic that 47.6% of social housing in London is occupied by a foreign-born head of household. The result is that when bleary-eyed overtaxed commuters from Zone 5 and beyond make their hour-plus daily pilgrimages to central London, they are travelling through a city which is far more ‘diverse’ than where they live, and which they are both priced out of and heavily subsidising.
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