From Daoudal’s indispensable blog we learn that another vote in the National Assembly on May 14 also demonstrated the preponderance of European dictates in the daily lives of French legislators, whose job it is to transpose European directives into French law.

I dealt with this very topic in March in a post entitled Anti-Discrimination Madness. The bill deals with the definition of “indirect discrimination,” reiterating three EU directives. The EU forbids indirect discrimination. According to the EU “An indirect discrimination constitutes a disposition, a criterion, or a practice that is neutral in appearance, but which is capable of causing a particular disadvantage for persons in relation to other persons, unless this disposition, this criterion, or this practice is objectively justified by a legitimate purpose and the means to achieve this purpose are necessary and appropriate.”

The bill's purpose is to define direct and indirect discrimination in accordance with the EU requirements.

As Yves Daoudal points out: strictly obeying the European directives means, therefore, that unjustified attribution of intent and imaginary comparisons must be permitted.

Some of you may want to check out a website called Stop-Discrimination, a multi-lingual EU sponsored site, where you can hone your vocabulary skills. Some of the terms defined at the site's glossary include: adultism, ageism, ephebiphobia, jeunism and Islamophobia.

Indirect Discrimination is defined thus:
Indirect discrimination occurs when an apparently neutral provision, criterion or practice would disadvantage people on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, gender or sexual orientation unless the practice can be objectively justified by a legitimate aim.

An example of indirect discrimination is requiring all people who apply for a certain job to sit a test in a particular language, even though that language is not necessary for the job. The test might exclude more people who have a different mother tongue.

Islamophobia is defined thus:
Islamophobia is an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam or Muslims. Islamophobia has significantly increased in the Western world since the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001.

"Homosexuals" and "Lesbians" are both defined as:
EU citizenship confers the right to protection from discrimination on the grounds of, among other things, sexual orientation. This is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

But notice how they define "Heterosexuality":
Heterosexuality means the attraction between two people of opposite sexes. It is characterised as a sexual orientation along with homosexuality and bisexuality.

It's strange that they feel they have to give an explicit definition of heterosexuality, but they feel no need to define homosexuality, other than to say it is protected and enshrined etc...
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