Paying the PC price: Bloomberg’s culture war

The Issue: Brooklyn's Longbow Pub, a Welsh bar, which was fined by the city for seeking British workers.

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The Longbow Pub was fined because the city's logical and moral compass is askew ("City Hall's PC Thugs," Editorial, June 24).

Does it make sense for a Welsh bar to seek workers that are not of the same culture?

Why don't the politically correct thugs fine Chinese restaurants for not seeking Swedish workers, or Southern cuisine restaurants for not seeking Yankee workers?

Would political parties be fined for seeking honest politicians, or should the politically correct mixture include sleazebags and crooks?

Gabriella Bass

Mayor Bloomberg

Imagine: "Wanted: Mayor of New York City. Must be honest." No Democrat would apply.

Texas would love the Longbow Pub.

Elio Valenti

Brooklyn

For the record, the NYC Commission on Human Rights filed a discrimination complaint against the Longbow Pub & Pantry in July 2012 for expressing a preference for one group over another, not for "not being diverse enough" or seeking an individual "who understands British pub culture."

In this case, the pub advertised for someone who is British, which is illegal in NYC under the NYC Human Rights Law, Title 8 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York. Advertising for a person from a specific group is no different than blatantly excluding all other groups.

Had the pub only sought an individual with knowledge of the culture, there would have been no case against it. It's legal to say an applicant should know British culture but illegal to say an applicant must be British.

Discrimination in NYC is illegal and will not be tolerated.

Patricia Gatling

Commissioner

Human Rights

Commission

Manhattan

Thomas Hobbes famously said: "Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money." Bureaucratic regulation is both a money-maker and a job-killer. Marty Murphy

Bay Ridge

Mayor Bloomberg is a thug, and his nanny-state shenanigans bring shame on the city I love.

He and his jack-booted, PC bullies can't be gone soon enough.

Glen Henderson

Dohar, Qatar

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