Sexism and racism! Why would you form a firefighting team of a particular race?
We need to fucking abolish race in this country. Just make it illegal to even talk about race or identify yourself as a member of a race. Maybe that's going a bit far but something in that direction.
Sexism pure and simple, state funded sexism and you wont see any protests in the city over it.
Reality is it's probably a very good program for this community, someone in the future will make us apologise for it though.
There would be (rightfully) a huge amount of outrage if that line had read
"For cultural reasons women in the Muslim community cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade in the town"
This is sexism pure and simple, and it should not be allowed, especially in government sanctioned roles. Just because we are afraid of being called racists shouldn't make us afraid of calling our sexism that we fought so hard to get away from.
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[–] didntsayeeeee 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Sexism and racism! Why would you form a firefighting team of a particular race?
We need to fucking abolish race in this country. Just make it illegal to even talk about race or identify yourself as a member of a race. Maybe that's going a bit far but something in that direction.
[–] 2ezy 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
Sexism pure and simple, state funded sexism and you wont see any protests in the city over it. Reality is it's probably a very good program for this community, someone in the future will make us apologise for it though.
[–] GimmeSweetSweetKarma 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
There would be (rightfully) a huge amount of outrage if that line had read
"For cultural reasons women in the Muslim community cannot work with the men in the Country Fire Service (CFS) brigade in the town"
This is sexism pure and simple, and it should not be allowed, especially in government sanctioned roles. Just because we are afraid of being called racists shouldn't make us afraid of calling our sexism that we fought so hard to get away from.