“Anti-Discrimination” Taken to Its Logical Conclusion
The disease of political correctness has been taken to its logical conclusion. Not only has discrimination been outlawed on the basis of race, gender, age, religious affiliation or national origin, but now also on the basis of ability.
According to a story in a daily newspaper, a Norfolk recruitment agency was rebuffed in its attempts to advertise a job at its local Job Centre which called for “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants — on the basis that it was discriminatory against the unreliable and the non-hard-working.
According to the report, recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was “especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.”
Mrs Mamo, director of Devonwood Recruitment was, however, not prepared for the reaction of staff at the Job Centre in Thetford who said she could not ask for “reliable” and “hard-working” applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people.
“In my 15 years in recruitment I haven’t heard anything so ridiculous,” Mrs Mamo told the newspaper. “If the matter wasn’t so serious I would be laughing out loud.
“Unfortunately it’s extremely alarming. I need people who are hard-working and reliable — and I am pleased to discriminate in that way. If they’re not, then I really can’t use them. The reputation of my business is on the line.
“Even the woman at the jobcentre agreed it was ridiculous but explained it was policy because they could get sued for being discriminatory against unreliable people.
“She told me they’d had lots of problems with people taking them to court for adverts stating something like ‘would suit school leaver’.”
Mrs Mamo said she was also told that the phrase “must speak English” was discriminatory.
“In the end, I had to write ‘must speak English due to health and safety reasons’ because they’re dealing with hazardous materials,” she told the newspaper.
This sort of madness is the end result of decades of Tory and Labour party created political correctness. Only the British National Party is dedicated to halting this slide into mass insanity.
