BBC turns down trainees because they are WHITE: Job applicants stunned to be told corporation only wants people from 'ethnic minority backgrounds'
* BBC advertised for two 12-month trainee roles with 'allowance' of £25,000 * Did not prohibit white people but mentioned ethnic minorities in advert * When people applied they got generic email saying it is closed to whites * Applicant accused BBC of 'racial discrimination' against white people
Job applicants accused the BBC of racial discrimination after being turned down for roles because they are white.
The broadcaster advertised for two junior script writers on 12-month trainee schemes, one of which offered the opportunity to work on hospital drama Holby City in London. But applicants were outraged when HR bosses replied to applications saying that they were only open to people from 'ethnic minority backgrounds'.
The corporation said the move was to address an 'under-representation of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in script editing roles'.
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Jason Evans
But one unsuccessful applicant accused them of flouting their own anti-discrimination rules by not granting him an interview based on his white ethnicity.
The 26-year-old, a media graduate, said: 'It's racial discrimination to disregard someone based on them being any race.
'It's just wrong and as far as I know it is illegal. Coming from the BBC, it's amazing.
'If you applied for a position and got a reply saying it was only open to white applicants you would quite rightly not be happy.This is exactly the same.'
The applicant, who chose to remain anonymous, added: 'Opportunities like this hardly ever come up.
'Of course there was no guarantee I would have got the job, but to be told I wasn't even allowed to apply because of the colour of my skin was appalling. I thought that became illegal years ago.
'Diversity is incredibly important and I am wholly against any form of discrimination - which is why I don't understand why the BBC think they can get away with this.
'The colour of someone's skin shouldn't even be questioned when applying for a role.' The advert was for two full-time drama assistant script editors for the trainee scheme, with an annual 'allowance' of up to £25,205.
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Cooper Lopez
One role was based in London, working six months on Holby City, and six months in a development position.
The other was based in Cardiff or Glasgow, and the candidate would split their time between development and production.
It was listed on the BBC website's job section and said BBC Drama believed 'content should accurately reflect and be enjoyed by as many people as possible'.
The job description added that the two posts were 'exciting training and development opportunities for those from black, Asian and other ethnic minorities'.
But it didn't explicitly ban other people applying and added recruiters were looking for candidates 'passionate about getting into Drama script writing'.
When applicants applied for the role they received a generic email from an internal BBC recruiter explaining the ban on white candidates.
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Ryder Hall
It said: 'The positions are only open to those from black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds who are passionate about getting into Drama script editing.' Figures reported this year show that 13.4 per cent of the BBC's workforce are from Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities.
That is more than the 13.1 per cent figure nationally from the 2011 Census which showed the proportion of the UK population from Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities.
The BBC said the scheme was a training opportunity, and allowed under the Equality Act, and claimed the advert made it clear it was for BAME candidates.
A spokesperson said: 'This is a training and development programme designed as a positive action scheme to address an identified under-representation of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in script editing roles at the BBC.'
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Josiah Hughes
lmao could the uk BE any more cucked?
Luis Morales
ONE IN SIX NEW ROLES MUST GO TO LESBIAN, GAY, BI OR TRANSGENDER
One in six of all on-screen BBC roles must go to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender or disabled people by 2020, the corporation's new diversity targets state.
In a bid to deter criticism that it has been failing to reflect its audience, the BBC has pledged that LGBT and disabled people will each make up eight per cent of all on-air and on-screen roles.
The new targets follow a heated debate in the House of Commons led by David Lammy MP on the issue of the broadcaster's diversity.
Fifty per cent of all on-screen and broadcasting roles will go to women, who already make up 48.5 per cent of the BBC's total workforce.
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Jeremiah Scott
Yeah, it could be Sweden.
They're not too far behind though.
Grayson Stewart
NEW STAFF TO BE ASKED HOW MIDDLE CLASS THEY ARE
The BBC is to ask new staff to disclose how middle class they are as it aims to become more diverse, it was reported.
Workers for the corporation could have to declare their family income and details of their upbringing.
It follows concerns about lack of diversity within the organisation. This included a 2014 report by a government social mobility commission, which found more than a quarter of staff were privately-educated.
FIN
Jace Lopez
I have no rational response. This is where I say something about white privilege.
Xavier Thomas
There was a time when the bbc wasn't a joke, can anyone pinpoint when the change happened? 20 years ago they were still great.
Anthony Sanders
>this is the western world now
Dylan Barnes
Same with the ABC in Australia. They had a trainee position for $60K a year, only for aboriginals. $60K! FOR A TRAINEE!
Mason Martin
I’m astounded that the BBC (a tax payer funded government agency) could be OPENLY fucking racist like this.
Had they said they’d only accept applications from ethic Whites, the shit would have hit the fan but apparently racism is perfectly ok when it's directed against Whites...
Daniel Wilson
Literally every western company does this. They're just not stupid enough to advertise it, they just quietly hire the ethnic applicant after interviewing everyone.
BBC is so far up its own ass they probably thought making mention of it was to brag about how progressive they are
Daniel White
My mother has been doing our family tree and I'm like 1/48th or something like that aboriginal. Am I free to apply?
Ayden Nelson
Well as an abbo you need that 60k for petrol sniffing
James Sanchez
Is that pretty good for Australia?
>tfw I only make 40k a year in the US
Juan Parker
>BBC is so far up its own ass kek
John Green
>tfw I only make 40k a year in the US
$60k here is the equivalent of $44k in Australia so you're pretty close. $60k isn't a large wage here but it is for a trainee position and it's still $10k more than I make a year.
Jason Morgan
>Literally every western company does this not really. Corporations with an actual bottom line want to maximize their employee pool. They may promote some token women or darkies to board positions but not outright refuse to hire whites
Connor Cox
They have a projected number
Michael Lee
I've seen people who are like Hitlers wet dream who've claimed being Aboriginal and get their benefits.
Alexander Phillips
>show up to an interview >cunt, nigger dune coon, chink
Needless to say I didn't get the job.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
is that number 100% or 50%? Highly doubt it and again, it would be potentially harmful to productivity unless there is a massive pool of skilled minorities in that particular sphere. SO I seriously doubt that it's a massive trend
Evan Anderson
This I have no problem with
Eli Collins
>ethnic minority
But whites are a global minority....
Levi Bailey
No you fucking idiot. Why are you trying to make my statement sound like I was saying 'they hire only ethnic people and never hire white people'. I was saying they all have a number of ethnic people to fill a quota within a company to keep up appearances. That isn't even close to 50%, but it's still an amount.
Charles Price
well if the amount is relatively close to the actual proportion of minorities in a given country I don't see an issue. If you run a US bank and want 12% black employees, feel free to dig around for them and potentially hurt your profits
Cooper Martin
>Diversity is incredibly important
With this line of thinking, he deserves to be cucked.
Juan Gomez
>mfw the dumbest girl in my tafe media comms class got a job at the ABC because she was 1/64th aborigine >mfw im unemployed and had to go back to uni
feels great being white ........,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, cant wait for all these great hand me outs to start......,,,,,,,
John Miller
this, they brought this upon themselves.
Alexander Green
Instead of being a salty bitch perhaps you should make your own opportunities?
Hunter Thompson
yeah i shouldnt get frustrated that a fucking idiot got a job ahead of me because of their ancestors
Cooper Bennett
Haha dude just make your own opportunities!
Isaac Thomas
This is how I feel when they say there aren't enough movies or stories about women or black people.
Jaxson Nelson
love this movie
Lincoln Lopez
Reminder: this is what race mixing is going to make the human race look like in 100+ years time
Eli Gomez
And liberals will still deny that the whole "diversity" trend is anything other than an attempt to marginalize whites.
Oliver Robinson
>sith lord eyes
Colton Lopez
you should be happy given the kind of lefty propaganda that comes out of the abc
Blake Harris
Yeah but you shouldn't have advantages in your own nation
Logan Allen
That's pretty hot
Adam Morales
but that's actually fucking illegal
Cameron Ortiz
Yeah and what they don't show you is that another few hundreds years after that, people are just going to get whiter.
Hunter Bailey
you must have the most shittest taste.
and I am not even being racist. I love women who look like Rihanna but this golden women is just shit quality.
Cooper Adams
>Human Race
Adrian Mitchell
from the volcanic ash I assume?
Nathaniel Evans
Hot? Sweet
Julian Ward
The average white girl doesn't look half as attractive as that
Joshua Walker
>le everyone's going to look like Rashida Jones meme Yeah, maybe if everyone's mom looked like Peggy Lipton.
Nathaniel Kelly
>but that's actually fucking illegal
Sorry, but blatant racism is perfectly acceptable if it's directed at Whites....
Anthony Phillips
>retards think this will happen in less than 5 generations