Anti-Discrimination Madness

An article posted by Yves Daoudal picks up the thread of a previous post from January, when he announced that the French National Assembly would be dealing with the definition of indirect discrimination, sometime after the municipal elections.

As predicted, the National Assembly resumed work on a bill that reiterates three directives from the European Union on the fight against discrimination.

Only about 20 deputies were in session, even though it is a topic that permanently mobilizes the forces of political correctness. But what is the use of putting yourself out when Parliament is merely taking on the role of recording studio of dictates from Brussels?

You will remember that the European Commission demanded in particular that France define indirect discrimination and specified that it is forbidden to enjoin someone to practice discrimination.

And in the first article they did as they were told:

"An indirect discrimination constitutes a disposition, a criterion, or a practice that is neutral in appearance, but which is capable of causing, for one of the reasons mentioned in the preceding line, a particular disadvantage for persons in relation to other persons, unless this disposition, this criterion, or this practice is objectively justified by a legitimate purpose and the means to achieve this purpose are necessary and appropriate."

"Discrimination includes the act of enjoining someone to adopt a behavior forbidden by Article 2."

You will note that the scope of "indirect discrimination" is so wide that they had to add a restriction: discrimination is not discrimination when it is "objectively" justified...

The language of the directives is so absurd that in the section on gender discrimination it was necessary to add a series of derogations indicating that in a certain number of areas "different treatment" because of sex can be justified...

For the the socialist opposition, it still isn't enough. They call it a minimal reflection (of the Brussels directives), an incomplete text, etc..

The government was represented by Valérie Létard, secretary of State for Solidarity, who proved herself to be in agreement with the opposition, because for the government, one can never do enough against discrimination. She stressed that "with this bill the government does not intend to stop there but to use it as a war-horse", and she announced more initiatives for the future: a law on the status of step-parents, a law on equality of the sexes, the ratification of the United Nations agreement on the rights of the handicapped, a European summit against discrimination...