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Does diversity divide us or promote and protect the marginalised?

Victoria Dmochowski

President Macron has proposed removing the word 'race' from the French constitution in the hopes that it will formally recognise that all humans are equal and we shouldn't focus on our differences. Do you agree / disagree?

Should the future of work 'glory in difference or ignore it'? Is it possible to be diverse and integrated at the same time? Have you seen positive discrimination work successfully?

There's a Radio 4 debate featuring Matthew Taylor here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b89nq0

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  • Macron should get his priorities straight and focus on the real problems France is facing. The French constitution very clearly refers to the declaration of human rights and includes a statement that we are all born free and with the same rights, regardless of where one comes from. no need to re-invent the wheel.
    he is right though that we shouldn't focus on our differences but it's about changing attitudes; how about just treating others decently as human beings and not caring what colour of the rainbow (and I don't mean rainbow as a LGBT icon) they are, or what life choices they have made etc?

    as for positive discrimination, this is the stupidest things pathetically correct extremists have come up with (that and taking the egg out of the salad emoji so that vegan wouldn't feel offended).
    discrimination can never be positive - how is discriminating against one group to promote another, positive? why is discrimination of certain groups outrageous but it is acceptable to discriminate against others? with that kind of thinking, if you are a white able-bodied non-religious heterosexual male, you got it all wrong and you don't stand a chance. there are other ways to be inclusive and diverse.
    If I'm not mistaken, isn't it one of the police forces (Surrey?) who implemented positive discrimination in their recruitment process to hire a more diverse workforce, only to be taken to a tribunal by white males who felt discriminated against and the police force lost. good intentions, wrong way to go about it.
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  • Macron should get his priorities straight and focus on the real problems France is facing. The French constitution very clearly refers to the declaration of human rights and includes a statement that we are all born free and with the same rights, regardless of where one comes from. no need to re-invent the wheel.
    he is right though that we shouldn't focus on our differences but it's about changing attitudes; how about just treating others decently as human beings and not caring what colour of the rainbow (and I don't mean rainbow as a LGBT icon) they are, or what life choices they have made etc?

    as for positive discrimination, this is the stupidest things pathetically correct extremists have come up with (that and taking the egg out of the salad emoji so that vegan wouldn't feel offended).
    discrimination can never be positive - how is discriminating against one group to promote another, positive? why is discrimination of certain groups outrageous but it is acceptable to discriminate against others? with that kind of thinking, if you are a white able-bodied non-religious heterosexual male, you got it all wrong and you don't stand a chance. there are other ways to be inclusive and diverse.
    If I'm not mistaken, isn't it one of the police forces (Surrey?) who implemented positive discrimination in their recruitment process to hire a more diverse workforce, only to be taken to a tribunal by white males who felt discriminated against and the police force lost. good intentions, wrong way to go about it.
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