Advert for ‘reliable workers’ banned as discrimination
‘Tis a sad day when news is indistinguishable from parody. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7079231/Advert-for-reliable-workers-banned-as-discrimination-by-Jobcentre-Plus.html)
Nicole Mamo, 48, wanted to post an advert for a £5.80-an-hour domestic cleaner on her local Jobcentre Plus website.
The text of the advert ended by stating that any applicants for the post ”must be very reliable and hard-working”.
But when Ms Mamo called the Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, the following day she was told that her advert would not be displayed instore.
A Jobcentre Plus worker claimed that the word ”reliable” meant they could be sued for discriminating against unreliable workers.
My comment: Science fiction writers often show the folly of some trend in modern life by envisioning a darkly humorous future where that trend is carried to an absurd extreme. When real life exceeds the imagined absurdity, my life as a science fiction writer grows difficult.
I cannot imagine anything this stupid.
The comedian Evan Sayet came up with the best explanation for this madness I have yet encountered. He says that the Leftists are mentally arrested at age five, the age at which they were told it was not nice to be not nice to people, and were told not nice means discrimination. They were told, in other words, that to make discriminating judgements, to be able to distinguish between similar but distinct cases, the ability tell, as on Sesame Street which things are not like the other, is evil and the source of evil.
They were told to condemn all condemnation, and to judge harshly any man who used his judgment. They were told that fair play is unfair.
They were told that thinking is a hate crime.
The result? In Sayet’s words:
“liberal ideology leads them to invariably and inevitably side with evil over good, wrong over right, the lesser over the better, the ugly over the beautiful, the profane over the profound, and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”
And, in this case, to side with the unreliable over the reliable.
Ayn Rand, who is wrong and nonsensical on many topics, is reliably right when it comes to her analysis of the motive and psychology of the liberal ideologues.
They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself…
The best way to ruin fortunes, ensure failure, welcome death, and express their universal hatred, is for the Leftist to decree thought to be thought-crime, speech to be speech-crime and life to be life-crime. The best way to create failure is to outlaw success. The best way to create unreliability is to decree reliability to be discrimination.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
