- The Queen?....a racist? Archived Message
Posted by sinister burt
on September 12, 2022, 2:08 pm
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Surely not! (is that the beefeaters at the door?). It'll just have been her courtiers, while she was innocently in the garden practising her nazi salutes. I'm sure we all remember this story, but I seem to have missed it in all the hagiography (ok, I haven't watched any of it, but still) https://www.dumptheguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/02/buckingham-palace-banned-ethnic-minorities-from-office-roles-papers-reveal "...In the 1960s government ministers sought to introduce laws that would make it illegal to refuse to employ an individual on the grounds of their race or ethnicity. The Queen has remained personally exempted from those equality laws for more than four decades. The exemption has made it impossible for women or people from ethnic minorities working for her household to complain to the courts if they believe they have been discriminated against. In a statement, Buckingham Palace did not dispute that the Queen had been exempted from the laws, adding that it had a separate process for hearing complaints related to discrimination. The palace did not respond when asked what this process consists of. The exemption from the law was brought into force in the 1970s, when politicians implemented a series of racial and sexual equality laws to eradicate discrimination..." |
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