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AlunD
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8616866.stmI'm sorry but I don't get this. A soldier ( gender irrelevant ) is late for a parade and is therefore disciplined. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The fact that the soldier is a) Female b) Black seems to make a difference. Why ? 
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Fogmeister
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HeatherKay
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I don't think the race and gender had much to do with it.
The soldier in question is a single parent. The disciplinary - quite rightly, mind - was over failing to attend parade. The underlying problem is, as a mother, she hadn't been able to arrange suitable child care.
So, the questions that need to be asked are should the military services be required to provide childcare for single parents, and should they also be looking at whether single parents should be allowed to sign up?
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AlunD
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Is any employer required to provide 24x7 childcare facilities? Good question but that would then be discriminatory. 
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So, the military are caught in a cleft stick. On one hand they must observe the laws of the land, on the other those same laws can be used to beat them. *shrug* _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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Fogmeister
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I agree but she is trying to get compensation for racial and sexual discrimination.
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Amnesia10
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I can see how it might be sexual discrimination, but racial?  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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One rule for them and another for the rest of us?
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timark_uk
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She's black. The judge seems to think she had a case.
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AlunD
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So if you were late and got disciplined would you sue?
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Fogmeister
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LOL, I turn up an hour late for work and get disciplined. I'd definitely sue because surely the only reason they disciplined me is because I'm white and male.
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Independent clickyBBC news reporting really is quite bad these days. Mark
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timark_uk
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This has got nothing to do with me. (8+/ Mark
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