Lootman wrote:The term "affirmative action" is in common use here.
Not here in the UK it isn't.
Lootman wrote:And as I noted above there are various backdoor ways of engaging in "positive" discrimination, as also indicated by the article cited upthread.
No, the article was deliberately misleading its readers by using the piece to make people believe that illegal discrimination was happening, when the piece was actually about the issue of those who are being snide and aggressive in alleging that someone was not the best candidate and they were only a diversity hire.