Equality loses out in the battles of victim groups
25th July 2009
The EHRC is falling apart because many of the people who run it are not concerned about equality at all, but rather with gaining preferential treatment for their own specific set of clients.
So, whatever their criticisms of Mr Phillips’s leadership style, Kay Hampton also resigned because not enough was being done for ethnic groups. Bert Massie and Jane Campbell insisted that disabled people were being neglected, while Ben Summerskill, also head of the gay rights group Stonewall, protested that the commission was failing to protect millions whose lives were “disfigured by prejudice”. Under the guise of demanding protection against discrimination, each victim group is in reality campaigning for privileges at the expense of everyone else.