"Overwhelmingly white" workplace affecting mental health

arknor said:
Just saw post on my cities reddit

seems other people don't really have issues with "white spaces", she mentions micro aggresions but I don't believe in that stuff, if you goto switzerland as a white man, in their mostly white country you get stared at a lot for not being local. it's not really racist aggression, but if you weren't white you would think it is maybe.

I wouldn't say it's not diverse up here though..

if you live in one of the poorer areas like I do then there's loads of diversity, whole areas of estates are basically spot the white man.
not saying anything is wrong with that just stating how it is.

20 years ago it was kinda rare to see a black person up here compared to where I'm from in the midlands but times change

There's always been a lot of asian here though from India etc and we have a china town

local news stuff and radioI guess is the local stuff.

pretty much not really part of the main BBC programming etc
Radio 5 is counted as a national radio station so I would say its part of the main BBC
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Lmao "micro aggressions" - that's when knew to stop reading, that's a Karen post
 
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Malevolence said:
If this racist idiot is so easily triggered by working with white people, then perhaps, if only for his own state of mental wellbeing, he should consider packing his bags and ******* off to a country that isn't over 80% white.
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See the problem is that the Oxbridge establishment only cares about London and so that is essentially the country for people inside the bubble that's been created for them over the last few decades. Not sure I really blame him for perceiving it this way just like you can't really blame the cave dwellers in Plato's allegory for wanting to return to their shadowy images instead of the truth that there's a world outside of London that is suffering.

It'll all come crumbling down soon enough.
 
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arknor said:
local news stuff and radioI guess is the local stuff.

pretty much not really part of the main BBC programming etc
Radio 5 is counted as a national radio station so I would say its part of the main BBC
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Ah OK, well plenty of that stuff did get moved up north, see the buildings listed here used by the BBC:

en.wikipedia.org

MediaCityUK - Wikipedia

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Match of the Day, Blue Peter, BBC Breakfast etc.

Obvs it's quite a white, working class area and part of the justification for the move was lower staff costs locally so they're going to have reduced visible diversity in their offices relative to London as a result.
 
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This stuff* is no longer a surprise if you have read commentary/analysis of language by the likes of Thomas Sowell or John McWhorter immediately come to mind. When you hear this type of language, it's a red flag for further views you could probably tease out of them if you were inclined to get involved, I probably wouldn't though as there is a VERY high chance you'll be called a racist within minutes.

*Humza Yousaf has also made comments about "white" people in most top jobs in Scotland, a historically majority white country...

How do you go your whole life and not realise that you are clearly in a country that is/has historically been populated by majority of white people? /facepalm.
 
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UTT said:
www.independent.co.uk

BBC presenter says ‘overwhelmingly white’ workplace affects his mental health

Nihal Arthanayake told a journalism diversity conference in Salford: ‘It’s really affecting me that I walk in and all I see is white people’
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

What's the answer?

Mine would be change employer to a more diverse workforce rather than suffer from deteriorating mental health, maybe even get some compo
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What an idiot.

The population is 81% white. So, chances are very high a lot of workplaces will be majority white.

It's like me complaining that a workplace here is majority black. Well... yes, because 80% of the population here is black.
 
Nihal is a racist and unfortunately any human can be a racist. I was taught to recognise the things that make us the same and see past the surface elements that make us a little different.

**** diversity, I'd teach unity over diversity any day of the week.
 
Priapus said:
What an idiot.

The population is 81% white. So, chances are very high a lot of workplaces will be majority white.

It's like me complaining that a workplace here is majority black. Well... yes, because 80% of the population here is black.
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Nobody can perceive an entire country no matter what a statistic says. It's entirely natural to look at your immediate surroundings and come away with a different perception than someone living in a different town.
 
StriderX said:
Nobody can perceive an entire country no matter what a statistic says. It's entirely natural to look at your immediate surroundings and come away with a different perception than someone living in a different town.
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You would expect someone working at the BBC, as a presenter, to be aware of such regional differences though, shirley?
 
StriderX said:
Nobody can perceive an entire country no matter what a statistic says. It's entirely natural to look at your immediate surroundings and come away with a different perception than someone living in a different town.
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Same can be said for any place. Here in South Africa, one could be forgiven thinking we are mostly a white nation; if they visited Cape Town. But the stats paint the full picture.

I'd have thought a well educated BBC presenter would understand these things, not so?

He is sounding like a racist.
 
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sounds like a successful integration story to me. having the same feelings as a lot of little Englanders were told not to have, while fully embracing the snooty north-south divide.
 
Ayahuasca said:
I thought we were supposed to judge people on their character, not the colour of their skin?

Absolute nonsense, has about as much substance as me walking into an office and caring how many Dell products are in use. In fact, I'd argue that my argument has more substance.
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Agreed. I'd add to that their competency and experience and expertise at the job. I don't care about your background, if you're a normally functioning human being that is good at their job then you're hired.

Now in workshops and getting a little bit of sentiment analysis then yes you need to bring people in from a broader range of lived experiences to get a more useful data set. However, other than that this is just provocation for no reason.
 
How screwed up must the HR department at the BBC be if they continually recruit racists and paedophiles.. whilst doubling down on the wokery in their programmes - it doesn't make sense..
 
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