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BBC accused of racism after banning white people from applying for £18,000 trainee job

Jacinta Taylor
The Mail on Sunday
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:22 UTC

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BBC director general Tim Davie has said that the lack of diversity among its top-paid stars means the broadcaster 'has more work to do' on the issue

The BBC has sparked a discrimination row after only allowing people from ethnic minorities to apply for a trainee position.

The broadcaster is advertising a one-year, £17,810 trainee production management assistant role with its Science Unit in Glasgow, but the position is 'only open to black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates'.

Positive discrimination is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010, but 'positive action' is allowed for trainee and internship roles in areas where there is under-representation.

The advert was posted online by Creative Access, a company that aims to boost the number of ethnic minorities working in the creative, media and arts industries. Whoever gets the post will have the chance to work on popular BBC shows including Springwatch, The One Show and The Truth About series.

Comment: It isn't the first time the BBC has tried its hand at social engineering. The Metro reported a similar case in 2018:

The BBC has come under fire for excluding people from a white-ethnic background from applying for a traineeship.

In the criteria for the job with BBC Newsbeat, it states that the traineeship is only open to candidates from a black, Asian or non-white ethnic minority background.

The trainee multimedia journalist position has been offered through the social enterprise Creative Access, which aims to get better representation for people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the creative industries.

Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra aimed at 16-25 year-olds.

The advert says that Newsbeat 'is the ideal environment for this type of gradual multi-media training that is so rewarding to experience early in a journalism career.' It also says that the successful candidate will taught how a busy newsroom works, broadcast journalism skills and video editing skills.

However, the advert has caused outrage after it was posted on the BBC Newsbeat Twitter page and has been accused of being 'racist'.

Actress Vicki McKellar said: 'Why do you think that ethnic minorities need a special leg up? That is not only patronising, it's also racist. It's also racist against white people.

'Get the best person for the job regardless of skin colour.'

The UK's NHS suffers from the same delusion:

NHS chief executive blames 'white privilege' for unequal BAME representation

WaPo's swing-and-a-miss: Activist Christopher Rufo dismantles 'hit piece' on his efforts to expose evils of critical race theory

RT
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC

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Christopher Rufo apparently made himself prey by becoming a top critic of neo-Marxist critical race theory (CRT), but he's firing back at the Washington Post over an article that sought to pick apart and discredit his arguments.

"The Washington Post's Laura Meckler spent three weeks preparing a hit piece against me," Ruffo said Sunday on Twitter, adding that the newspaper used five "flat-out lies" to smear him. "This is how the media lies."

The WaPo article, which was published on Saturday, placed Rufo at the center of a Republican push to attack CRT and use it as a political weapon to portray Democrat policies as extreme, scary and anti-American. Meckler attempted to show that Rufo has misled the public about the nature of CRT and has made claims about training materials that go further than the documents that he cites.

Comment: A sample of Rufo's valient efforts to combat this pernicious mind virus:

Female athletes urged to boycott Tokyo Olympics as New Zealand accused of 'cheating' after trans weightlifter selected for Games

RT
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 07:54 UTC

New Zealand has been accused of undermining female athletics after tapping trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo, with some even describing the decision as outright cheating.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) CEO Kereyn Smith said that Hubbard met the requirements to compete in the international games, and stressed that New Zealand's team has a "strong culture of... inclusion and respect for all." Smith acknowledged that the decision was controversial, stating that "human rights" must be balanced with "fairness on the field of play" when it comes to gender identity in sports.

However, many took issue with the assertion that New Zealand had carefully weighed all the relevant factors before inviting Hubbard to compete.

Comment: It's cheating. Plain and simple.

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Oxford alumni warn woke mob wants 'sensitivity readers' to vet and edit university's oldest newspaper

Steve Watson
Summit News
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:22 UTC

Move described as '"horrific" attempt to trample over press freedom and silence non-woke viewpoints'.

Oxford University alumni have slammed attempts by the Student Union there to employ "sensitivity readers" to vet, edit and place 'trigger warnings' on the institution's oldest newspaper in order to resolve 'problematic' articles.

As the London Telegraph reports, 'Student Consultancy of Sensitivity Readers' are to be paid by Oxford Student Union to address "high incidences of insensitive material being published" by the Cherwell newspaper.

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Seattle Pride charges white people 'reparations' fee while 'BIPOC' attend for free

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 03:39 UTC

A new Pride event is happening in Seattle this month specifically for BIPOC people. Promotional material for event, called Taking B(l)ack Pride, states that while the event will be free for people of color, white people will be charged a "$10 to $50 reparations fee."

"All are free to attend HOWEVER this is a BLACK AND BROWN QUEER TRANS CENTERED, PRIORITIZED, VALUED, EVENT," the materials read. "White allies and accomplices are welcome to attend but will be charged a $10 to $50 reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer COMMUNITY."

Capitol Hill Pride, which is hosting a Pride March and Rally over the same weekend, took issue with the Taking B(l)ack Pride fee structure, and made a complaint to the City of Seattle Human Rights Commission. That complaint was denied.

'Democracy is dead': Time-traveling Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom star in 'cringe' pro-Democrat political ad to conservative mockery

RT
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 21:21 UTC

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have been mocked by conservatives for a hammed-up political ad warning America that democracy will be "dead" in the future unless they support some Democrat-pushed voting bills.

Released on Thursday, the ad stars Perry and Bloom as a pair of ragtag freedom fighters living under a presumably Republican dictatorship in the year 2055. In a message beamed back to the present day, they warn that "democracy is dead" in the future, and that "the regime watches our every move."

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Previously deported sex offenders arrested after crossing into multiple border sectors

Bob Price
Breitbart
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 00:01 UTC

Border Patrol agents in multiple southern border sectors arrested several previously deported sex offenders after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the United States.

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents detected a group of three migrants on Tuesday evening after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Arizona, according to information provided by Border Patrol officials in Arizona. The agents arrived at the location and arrested the three migrants.

The agents transported the migrants to a processing center where a records check identified one of the men, 37-year-old Juan Nunez-Tavarez, as a four-time previously deported sex offender.

Massive George Floyd head sculpture in Brooklyn divides opinion as it's unveiled to mark Juneteenth

RT
Sun, 20 Jun 2021 02:31 UTC

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Terrence Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd who was killed by a police officer, attends the unveiling event for his brother's statue, as part of Juneteenth celebrations, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 19, 2021.

A six-foot-tall sculpture of George Floyd's head has been unveiled in Brooklyn, New York City, both drawing praise and raising eyebrows. The statue was inaugurated by Floyd's brother on the occasion of Juneteenth.

The larger-than-life art piece by sculptor Chris Carnabuci was installed at Brooklyn's Flatbush Junction on Saturday. The unveiling ceremony was headlined by Terrence Floyd, who called the police killing of his brother a "sacrifice" to the cause of racial justice.

New York Council Member Farah Louis described Floyd's legacy as "truly monumental," insisting that it was not "just a figure of speech." Louis argued that Floyd's death became a springboard for America to reckon with its legacy of "systemic racism and police brutality."

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Qatar will only allow vaccinated at World Cup 2022, will 'offer' vaccines to fans

Middle East Eye
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:05 UTC

Qatar said on Sunday that only people who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 would be allowed to attend the World Cup next year, adding that it is in negotiations to secure one million doses in case the global vaccination drive falls behind.

The Gulf emirate will host the four-week tournament in November 2022 and the president of global soccer body Fifa has said the matches would be held in full stadiums.

Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani told newspapers that while most countries were expected to have vaccinated their citizens by then, Qatar was still taking measures to ensure a successful event.

Comment: Except there's a significant number of people refusing to participate in these mass experimental vaccine trials: Unused Covid vaccines piling up across US as those rejecting offer increase - Bloomberg

Comment: Meanwhile in Texas:

Julian Assange's partner brands his incarceration 'intolerable and grotesque'

The Canary
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:09 UTC

The partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has described his ongoing incarceration in one of England's highest security prisons as "intolerable and grotesque".

Intolerable

Stella Moris and the couple's two young sons, Gabriel and Max, visited Assange in prison for the first time in eight months on the morning of Saturday 19 June.

Despite winning his long-running extradition battle in January against the US, Assange remains in HMP Belmarsh in south London pending the outcome of an appeal.

Assange is still wanted in the US on an 18-count indictment. He's facing allegations of plotting to hack computers and conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. The prosecution followed WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents in 2010 and 2011 relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as diplomatic cables.

Moris said the last time she had seen Assange in the flesh was his last court appearance in early January.

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Society's Child

BBC accused of racism after banning white people from applying for £18,000 trainee job

WaPo's swing-and-a-miss: Activist Christopher Rufo dismantles 'hit piece' on his efforts to expose evils of critical race theory

Female athletes urged to boycott Tokyo Olympics as New Zealand accused of 'cheating' after trans weightlifter selected for Games

Oxford alumni warn woke mob wants 'sensitivity readers' to vet and edit university's oldest newspaper

Seattle Pride charges white people 'reparations' fee while 'BIPOC' attend for free

'Democracy is dead': Time-traveling Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom star in 'cringe' pro-Democrat political ad to conservative mockery

Previously deported sex offenders arrested after crossing into multiple border sectors

Massive George Floyd head sculpture in Brooklyn divides opinion as it's unveiled to mark Juneteenth

Qatar will only allow vaccinated at World Cup 2022, will 'offer' vaccines to fans

Julian Assange's partner brands his incarceration 'intolerable and grotesque'

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