{"id":1058,"date":"2016-01-29T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:03:18","slug":"authorities-are-more-interested-in-being-pc-than-stopping-forced-marriages-equality-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/authorities-are-more-interested-in-being-pc-than-stopping-forced-marriages-equality-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities are more interested in being PC than stopping forced marriages, equality chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p>David Cameron&#8217;s equality &#8220;tsar&#8221; has blamed liberal &#8220;hand-wringing&#8221; and political correctness for preventing abuse in the name of multi-culturalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>Louise Casey suggested abuses such as forced marriage were being allowed to continue because some officials are more interested in PC language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>Ms Casey, who is leading a Government review of opportunities and segregation among ethnic minorities, indicated that British authorities suffer from a hesitancy to tackle deep-seated problems in some ethnic minority communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>&#8220;Take forced marriage. We let some of that happen because we&#8217;re so politically correct in wanting our multi-cultural Britain we forget to talk about equality,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/david-cameron\/12121338\/Authorities-are-more-interested-in-being-PC-than-stopping-arranged-marriages-equality-chief-says.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/politics\/david-cameron\/12121338\/Authorities-are-more-interested-in-being-PC-than-stopping-arranged-marriages-equality-chief-says.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron&#8217;s equality &#8220;tsar&#8221; has blamed liberal &#8220;hand-wringing&#8221; and political correctness for preventing abuse in the name of multi-culturalism. Louise Casey suggested abuses such as forced marriage were being allowed to continue because some officials are more interested in PC language. Ms Casey, who is leading a Government review of opportunities and segregation among ethnic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,239,4,376],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage","tag-government","tag-halo-project","tag-politically-correct"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}