Equality

Discrimination, as with most unpleasant things, is a tool that the ruling class has used to divide us, when we should be standing united. Ending equality will take more than just saying to stop being bigoted, but a process of education for those who have fallen for hateful rhetoric, and adaptations for the world to be equitable. It is this process that we are proud to support!

• Perhaps the most poignant example of discrimination, as practised through capitalism, is that of gentrification. In the simplest terms, gentrification is the process of capital forcing people to move out of their homes, predominantly from the BAME community, by making the area more appealing to a slightly richer group, and thus pricing out the current residents… and then promptly blaming a handful of individuals that aren’t at fault. Tackling gentrification eventually means removing the power of capital to gentrify, but in the interim we can protect our communities through mandating sufficient affordable housing across all our communities, even in areas which have previously only been resided in by the ultra-rich.
• The gender pay gap is real and oppressive, and the denial that it exists means that hard evidence is essential, both to prove reality and educate others, and to make a tangible change. We will require companies publish information on their internal gender pay gap, as well as work to reduce the gendered bias of unpaid work that occurs within the household, such as cooking and cleaning.
• Discrimination very rarely focusses on one particular aspect of a person – and when multiple forms of discrimination overlap, they don’t just add together, they multiply. For instance, society’s discrimination against autistic people overlaps with it’s discrimination against transgender people, creating a form of discrimination where autistic children are denied support at gender identity clinics, brushed off with the notion that “it’s just the autism”. Not only will we recognise the importance of an intersectional viewpoint when it comes to tackling discrimination, we will use this to eradicate discrimination from our public services, where people should be at the lowest risk of discrimination and bigotry.
• We recognise in our own country that parliament is, broadly speaking, made up of able-bodied white men. The scale of the problem is indicative of underlying problems, and the sheer level of inequality may only realistically be something fixed through restricted shortlists of candidates, such as ‘All Women Shortlists’. We are proud to support such measures in the name of equality, and reject the idea that this is discriminatory – indeed, it simply acts as a measure to counteract previous decades, if not centuries of discrimination that are still having their impacts felt today.

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