Andrew Bolt: ANU’s ‘social justice policy’ offers no justice at all

The ANU has just banned men from applying for certain jobs, revealing that racism and sexism are actually good, as long as the right race or gender ends up on top.

Sexism is an insult to our intelligence, yet it’s now official at the Australian National University. Picture: Gary Ramage

For most of my life I thought racism was bad, and sexism, too. But the Australian National University has taught me I’m wrong.

Racism and sexism are actually good, as long as the right race or gender ends up on top.

That is why the ANU now bans men from applying for any of the 10 new jobs in space technology at its Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre.

You could be Einstein, but you won’t even get an interview.

Hear it from the ANU: “Applications will only be accepted by applicants identifying as women.”

The reason: “This is an equal employment opportunity measure aiming to increase representation of women in the field of instrumentation for astronomy and space.”

But “equal opportunity” is a lie. There’s no equal opportunity for men if they are banned.

Well, not exactly banned. They could just frock up, and lie about their identity.

The ANU gives men a way in if they claim they’re women instead. It says these jobs are actually reserved for “women and women-identifying” – which means women, plus men who now say they’re not.

Most men will have too much integrity to claim they are trans just to get a job, although given the race-shifting of some Australian academics I shouldn’t be so sure.

But the unfairness of this ban is one thing – a “social justice” policy that gives no justice at all to talented individuals who are judged by their penis and not their brains or character.

For all of us, it also matters that one of our top universities is advertising that it deliberately won’t hire the most talented people, but choose worse ones instead.

Men are banned only because the university assumes they would otherwise fill some or even most of those 10 jobs, being the best candidates.

But what is the university actually for? To foster excellence or a woke mediocrity?

And why do we taxpayers fund its space program? To get the best in the world, or only something as good as less-qualified women can produce?

I doubt that future astronomers, looking through a blurry telescope, will think: “But at least only women made this.”

Sexism is an insult to our intelligence. Yet it’s now official at the ANU, which proudly declares: No men need apply.