White executive excluded from meetings by Indian boss wins £40k payout

Cases like this are only going to become more common

Yet very few HR and DEI departments want to hear or think about this. Easier to continue saying white people are the bad guys

What a lot of people don’t realise is that India and Indian culture is a hotbed of racism. The caste system is an integral part of their system and promotes racism against other communities and often even with lower caste Hindus.

At no cost should we let this sort of nonsense permeate and become acceptable over here.

Reading the article seems like it was more a case of nepotism gone wrong. Son who ran the company employed his mum in a managerial position, her being bad at it and the person complaining complaining to the managers boss without realising that was her son. Then got internally blackballed.

> Employment Judge Callum Cowx said that Ms Blackwell was treated “less favourably” than her colleagues but that this was not because she was “white British”.

> He added: “The motivation behind [Ms Blackwell’s] dismissal was the personality clash between herself and [Ms Kapoor], and the complaints made by [Ms Blackwell] about [Ms Kapoor],” he said.

> “In a small, family-run business it was inevitable that [her] position would become precarious, if not untenable, once she had made accusations of the kind she did against [Ms Kapoor].”

> But the judge concluded she was subjected to victimisation in the aftermath of the accusations and awarded her £41,181.58 in compensation.

ITT: no one reading the racebaiting Torygraph article and making wild (and racist) assumptions based on the headline. Stay classy r/unitedkingdom

Indian people have the highest paid incomes on average in the UK, among all ethnicities including white. This is why using broad terms like BAME or offering scholarships and opportunities to ‘people of colour’ is wrong because they completely fail to account for class and also the fact that some ethnic minorities have a very low income and scarce opportunities and others have a very income. 

It’s not as simple as white vs poc. We should absolutely run schemes and promote opportunities for specific ethnic groups who are socially disadvantaged. But currently this is just divided as a simple binary, white vs poc and that is bad.

For example, I went to a pretty prestigious uni with a high attendance of private school people. I am white and from a working class background. I found it very frustrating bc there were specific scholarships, research schemes and summer programmes for BAME students and absolutely nothing for working class people, even though the university knows it has a class problem. And when I say working class, I absolutely mean any ethnicity who is working class.

It was very frustrating because I had fellow students who were from very wealthy private school backgrounds get many opportunities through these schemes (because they were not white), but there was nothing I could apply for.

The FT did a report last yea r looking into university attendance and job prospects among different ethnicities into the UK and divided into those who had free school meals and those who didn’t. White boys with free school meals were on the bottom of the scale. 

I know this doesn’t directly pertain to what this post is about, but it reminded me of this because it does shed a light on the dynamics of power, class and race is a modern multinational UK.