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Discrimination and Culture

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Discrimination and Culture

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Discrimination and Culture book

Discrimination and Culture

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Discrimination and Culture book

ByNicholas Mark Smith
BookBasic Equality and Discrimination

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
Imprint Routledge
Pages 21
eBook ISBN 9781315568768

ABSTRACT

This chapter suggests that where carelessness or recklessness is proved, the remedies for indirect discrimination in the private sector should be milder than those for intentional discrimination and should be aimed at imposing better practices. Some of the issues that arise with indirect discrimination are common to group directed policies. Objections to such policies are usually better known as arguments against what is most commonly known as affirmative action. Statistical discrimination is intentional and it intentionally and unfairly excludes individuals. It is not just a practice that has the harmful long-term consequence of perpetuating group-based inequalities. A commitment to basic equality will constrain us from intentional discrimination. The idea of indirect discrimination, found in some constitutional and ordinary anti-discrimination law provisions, tries to deal with the problem of policies and rules which have an unintentional, disproportionate and unnecessary adverse impact on certain groups.

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