FOR Jockey Club chief executive Major-General Guy Watkins, discrimination can be defined as making a clear distinction.
The policy of the Quiet Room makes a clear distinction on the basis of gender.
Clubhouse manager Kurt Schwartz is correct in saying that the stewards' principle in this matter is not arbitrarily discriminatory.
What it is is specifically discriminatory against women.
If, as Guy Watkins and Kurt Schwartz state, the Jockey Club can establish policies which are based upon the 'interests of the majority', would it be deemed acceptable to impose discriminatory practices on the basis of race or nationality, for example if it is in the 'interests of the majority' of the membership? How can the Jockey Club which has positioned itself as the largest charitable organisation and is highly respected as a bastion of goodwill reconcile its public ethos with its discriminatory practices? C. E. LEVINE A. S. LEVINE Kowloon