Andrew
April 17, 2024, 7:08am
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tempogain:
I don’t overthink it personally, Taiwan’s Immigration Act prohibits discrimination based on national origin. Excluding people arbitrarily on the basis of their national origin, when they actually qualify on that basis, is discrimination.
You’d think so, but the MOI committee responsible for assessing discrimination doesn’t seem to think that discrimination is discrimination, so…
Some responses from them in these posts:
I went to the post office today to collect the MOI’s response to the discrimination complaint against Richart/Taishin/JKO that I filed in October.
They upheld my complaint, saying that discrimination against foreigners residing here is completely unacceptable and that they’ve instructed Richart/Taishin/JKO to include foreigners in the current promotion and any future promotions by whatever means necessary.
Only joking!! It was more of the same meaningless excuses.
OCR’d, machine-translated, …
I went to the post office today to collect the response to my administrative appeal against the Ministry of the Interior regarding my Richart/Taishin/JKO discrimination complaint. It was just a single sheet of A4 paper with a black and white printout of a photograph of somebody’s middle finger.
I’m only joking of course! It was something of a middle finger to foreigners living here, in my opinion and figuratively speaking, but in words instead. Six pages of them, justifying why it’s okay for bu…
Keep meaning to submit an FOI request to try and find out what the committee’s working definition of discrimination is, or what situations (if any) they’ve found to constitute discrimination.
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