Summary
IN concluding that there has been a "collective failure" but no- one is to blame has Lord Butler "unwittingly" thrown light on what Sir Iain Macpherson called "institutional" discrimination? Sir Iain defined it in terms of racism as: "The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes, and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people."
The specifics are not so important here as the broad principles. Could some of the conclusions Butler has arrived at provide a vocabulary and set of working tools for analysing the concept in future institutional developments? A few notions will suffice to make the point. Butler found that the intelligence was "misleading" although he also decided that we were not misled. Omissions and the processes by which these come about are central.See the full content of this document
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It Wouldn't Happen in a Local Cricket Club
In his elegant framing he concludes, "More weight was placed on the intelligence than it could bear". He spe...
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