No money for "racist" lifeboat service!
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WE'LL KEEP THEM AFLOAT
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11:00 - 27 January 2005
Sometimes it takes ordinary people to cut through the nonsense that is political correctness. And so it is with the refusal of the Awards for All lottery grants to help the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) because it did not rescue enough people from ethnic minorities.
It is an argument that is so breathtaking in its absurdity, so totally illogical, that it defies belief.
Yet it has taken a couple from an ethnic minority to put things right.
For like everyone else who has read this story, Bristol takeaway owners Nick and Jay Jethwa appreciate that when it comes to rescuing people, nobody, literally nobody, considers the colour of their skin or their nationality.
If we see someone in trouble we have a natural human instinct to want to help them. We have seen evidence of this in the wake of the tsunami.
Anyone with the slightest common sense knows that the members of SARA are driven by a desire to save lives, whoever those lives might be.
Mr and Mrs Jethwa not only appreciate the role of this organisation, they are embarrassed by the behaviour of the lottery grant officials.
Their offer to raise the £5,000 needed to keep SARA going is a sincere one and should make anyone who believes political correctness is a force for good think again.
It's a stifling, limiting force, it's intrusive and damaging, it smoothers humour, it breeds misunderstanding, it suffocates free speech and it makes a mockery of those who try to impose it.
Political correctness is a curse of modern times. It imposes change where none is needed, it makes issues of situations where none exist and it leaves people tongue-tied as they worry about saying the wrong thing.
It results in money being given to spurious minority groups at the expense of organisations which work for the general good of everyone.
Political correctness is divisive. Rather than help to overcome differences, it serves only to reinforce them.
It really is about time more of us challenged it. Mr and Mrs Jethwa are a kind and generous couple but it shouldn't have been left to them to redress such a glaringly wrong practice.
WE'LL KEEP THEM AFLOAT
Next Story | Previous Story | Back to list
11:00 - 27 January 2005
Sometimes it takes ordinary people to cut through the nonsense that is political correctness. And so it is with the refusal of the Awards for All lottery grants to help the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) because it did not rescue enough people from ethnic minorities.
It is an argument that is so breathtaking in its absurdity, so totally illogical, that it defies belief.
Yet it has taken a couple from an ethnic minority to put things right.
For like everyone else who has read this story, Bristol takeaway owners Nick and Jay Jethwa appreciate that when it comes to rescuing people, nobody, literally nobody, considers the colour of their skin or their nationality.
If we see someone in trouble we have a natural human instinct to want to help them. We have seen evidence of this in the wake of the tsunami.
Anyone with the slightest common sense knows that the members of SARA are driven by a desire to save lives, whoever those lives might be.
Mr and Mrs Jethwa not only appreciate the role of this organisation, they are embarrassed by the behaviour of the lottery grant officials.
Their offer to raise the £5,000 needed to keep SARA going is a sincere one and should make anyone who believes political correctness is a force for good think again.
It's a stifling, limiting force, it's intrusive and damaging, it smoothers humour, it breeds misunderstanding, it suffocates free speech and it makes a mockery of those who try to impose it.
Political correctness is a curse of modern times. It imposes change where none is needed, it makes issues of situations where none exist and it leaves people tongue-tied as they worry about saying the wrong thing.
It results in money being given to spurious minority groups at the expense of organisations which work for the general good of everyone.
Political correctness is divisive. Rather than help to overcome differences, it serves only to reinforce them.
It really is about time more of us challenged it. Mr and Mrs Jethwa are a kind and generous couple but it shouldn't have been left to them to redress such a glaringly wrong practice.
to Nick and Jay Jethwa 
Rude-boy said:
Sorry we'll have to leave one of your kids behind as it'll bugger up our stats if we rescue another white one today and they'll cut our funding.
Or, if you want to approach this more directly, simply chuck some people from a range of ethnic backgrounds (except obviously white anglo-saxon) into the Severn estuary and then rescue them. Funding secured
towman said:
This is exactly why the RNLI does not seek any money from Government. And more power to them for it.
Steve
It doesn't need to, it is minted + retains a good deal of autonomy.
Not the only large maritime organisation out there with charity status that is raking it in either.
Don't get me wrong, not knocking RNLI at all, they are all real heroes with balls of steel.
bga said:
Don't get me wrong, not knocking RNLI at all, they are all real heroes with balls of steel.
I have two cousins who are crew on the boat serving the worst bit of sea the RNLI cover. Andrew once said to me,"When everyone else is coming in, we're going out." Balls of steel indeed.
ferg said:
Don't get me wrong, not knocking RNLI at all, they are all real heroes with balls of steel.
I have two cousins who are crew on the boat serving the worst bit of sea the RNLI cover. Andrew once said to me,"When everyone else is coming in, we're going out." Balls of steel indeed.
hope they stay safe!
Mon Ami Mate said:If you're going to sack somebody, could you please take care that 5.43% of everything sacked is part of an ethical minority!? Just want to make sure nobody's left out
SACK SOMEBODY AND SACK THEM NOW
Can I suggest we don't just sack a somebody, we sack an entire political party.
bga said:
Disgusting if true, but I think there is more to this than meets the eye.
My dad is a volunteer cliff rescue blokey - they work very closely with the lifeboat/rescue services. They are not required to log ethnicity on their rescue reports.
I read about this somewhere else, I think the reason that the money was witheld was that the lifeboat group was not set up expressly to benefit a "minority" rather than them not rescuing enough. An incredibly asinine decision whichever way you look at it though.
wolves_wanderer said:
Disgusting if true, but I think there is more to this than meets the eye.
My dad is a volunteer cliff rescue blokey - they work very closely with the lifeboat/rescue services. They are not required to log ethnicity on their rescue reports.
I read about this somewhere else, I think the reason that the money was witheld was that the lifeboat group was not set up expressly to benefit a "minority" rather than them not rescuing enough. An incredibly asinine decision whichever way you look at it though.
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