> The freedom of movement within the EU is definitely not based on race, but on the citizenship of any of the Schengen Area countries.
That's true, but can't it still be considered racist? It may not be direct, intentional racism, but the net result of UK policy is that white people can enter the UK much easier than black or brown people.
If I require that my employees be at least 6 feet tall, isn't that a sexist hiring policy?
> If I require that my employees be at least 6 feet tall, is that a sexist hiring policy?
Do people who are at least 6 feet tall make better employees?
If you require loan applicants to have income sufficient to make the loan payments, and that is true of more white applicants than black applicants, is that a racist policy?
It would be racist to assume a black person might not have insufficient income, just because he's black and someone arbitrarily made an income statistic based in race.
You could work that same data to group people by age, gender, political bias, shoe size, arm length, eye color, favourite sport, etc and discriminate against many, many things :-) but actually you should only look at the income and decide on that.
That's a great point. I was thinking of a job where height is not an advantage, but perhaps the better analogy is to a job where height is an advantage and so the policy is not sexist/racist.
That's true, but can't it still be considered racist? It may not be direct, intentional racism, but the net result of UK policy is that white people can enter the UK much easier than black or brown people.
If I require that my employees be at least 6 feet tall, isn't that a sexist hiring policy?