REVERSE REVERSE RACISM: Sweden rapped for ‘too white’ company boards.

Adam Cwejman, a spokesperson for the liberal Think Tank Timbro offered a completely different perspective, telling The Local he believed the entire debate had been framed in a language that could serve to further encourage racism.

“The term ethnic diversity is en vogue in Sweden right now and it is being pushed around a lot by anti-racists and democrats but there are some hidden problems when talking about this issue,” he said.

“They think they are correcting some implicit discrimination by calling for more foreign workers but at the same time this is basically suggesting that people from outside of Sweden have some kind of intrinsic value just by being non-Swedes. In a way this reinforces the image of non-Swedes being somewhat different.”

The trick, then, is to favor non-whites over whites but without appearing to call attention to differences:

He argued that companies should instead focus more on recruiting and developing staff with more diverse “skills and experiences”.

“An ethnic background may not say anything about a person. What we really need is more colour blindness,” he said.

Wouldn’t “colour blindness” demand not noticing that there are supposedly too many whites on company boards?