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Shop bans foreign students from entering premises
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8182558.stm
Irrespectively of the man's complete stupidity (by his own admission it is a small number of people causing trouble) do you think shop owners should have the right to ban people based on their nationality?
I personally hope he gets taken to the cleaners. Hell, if I was a student I'd make a trip to the place and sue him myself.
Irrespectively of the man's complete stupidity (by his own admission it is a small number of people causing trouble) do you think shop owners should have the right to ban people based on their nationality?
I personally hope he gets taken to the cleaners. Hell, if I was a student I'd make a trip to the place and sue him myself.
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Unless he's a fucking moron.
Either the bloke is a bit thick, or a xenophobe.
I cant see the problem with this myself, with a lack of good housing why shouldnt they be able to deal with only british people if they want to?
So where are the Poles meant to live, if they're looking for houses?
Thats not really the same is it?
As for estate agents, do we ever expect them to be honest and decent? The best thing that can happen to estate agents is that someone sets them on fire.
I think it's a much bigger issue if it's something there isn't so much choice with for example the police or the NHS.
well yea i agree with you 100%, i think it's wrong that he's discriminating at all. I was being ... (i dont know the word for it, a bit like devils advocate / ironic or something) because if we let him go and do it the only one who suffers is him so it serves him right.
Loving your attitude mate its great (sarcasm btw)
How would you react if you were Polish and all these landlords said to you "No your not renting because your Polish? Bet you wouldnt be a happy bunny"
Have some sympathy, yes they come here and "steal" our jobs, they work harder for less? i dont see the problem.
It's probably the same people who talk about dirty foreigners behaving badly in this country.
crying-angel x
Response to Kermit's post and pissed up Brits abroad,
This will either improve bladder control OR, the gene pool - High five!
I think the shop owner should be allowed to ban whoever he wants from the store for whatever reason he wants. It's a privately-owned business that doesn't take any taxpayers money, it's generally up to them how they run their own businesses.
I think you should be able to do whatever you want in your private life. But I also think that if you want to open something up to the public, you should either open it to all of the public, or none of it. Only behaviour should be a reason for denying access to anyone, and then not everyone who happens to look like that person too.
Many nightclubs though discriminate on:
- appearance
- wealth (perceived)
- gender
So is it is a tricky area in the sense that different organisations have different standards.
But the question is, do you agree with them doing that?
The real problem is that sensible people don't openly discriminate based on those grounds, they come up with a spurious ground and use that instead. It's not because you're gay that you can't come in here, it's because you're wearing trainers. It's not because you're a woman of child-bearing age that we're not giving you the job, it's because the other person was more suited to the job description.
Utter bollocks and utterly reprehensible, but not much you can really do about it.
I always work on the basis that I don't want to go in anywhere that's likely to refuse me entry.
Gender's the only one that clubs (are allowed to) explicitly operate a discriminatory policy. And I don't think they should be allowed to either, but there you go. Most of the club discrimination is implicit, using legitimate rules like dress code (which you choose) and age restrictions to deny access to people they don't like the look of. The "no trainers" rule is a good one, seemingly the acceptable face of a "no chavs" rule, because I've never been denied access with trainers on.
But clubs are slightly less of a concern, because everyone there is an adult. I don't think it's acceptable for kids of particular groups to have to walk past shops with "no blacks" or "no foreigners" on the window, or to watch their parents denied entry because of this. But maybe we've moved on enough that we could allow this and be sure that such incidents will undoubtedly result in lost business for people who do it? I don't know.