Andrew Bolt: NSW Treasurer needs lesson on unfairness of ‘social justice’

The very woke NSW Treasurer who pushed a law to force bosses to hire more women over men, now has a chance to prove he’s not another woke hypocrite.

Social justice is no justice.

Just ask Matt Kean, the very woke NSW Treasurer who finally has his big chance to walk his social justice talk about gender equality.

Kean looks like losing his seat because of an electoral redistribution and is reportedly hunting for a safer one.

It seems true because Kean refuses to comment.

But shouldn’t Kean just say, no, he won’t move? He’ll make way for a woman?

After all, this is the treasurer, who this year pushed a new law to force bosses to hire more women over men.

He also last year insisted the Liberals get more women into politics, complaining: “You cannot be chronically under-representing half the population”.

So Kean, who has been so quick to demand other men stand aside for a woman, could just step aside himself and prove he’s not another woke hypocrite.

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean. Picture: Gaye Gerard

But I suspect a reality is starting to dawn on him. Social justice actually stinks. In fact, it’s no justice at all.

You hear a lot, particularly in America, about this “social justice”, which increasingly involves lumping individuals into groups – by race, gender, religion – and saying, aha!, this or that pet group faces discrimination.

Not enough black students at university? This must be racism!

Tackle it with more affirmative action.

Not enough women in top jobs? More discrimination! Hire more women, and call it social justice.

But Kean, not a modest man, may now realise this “social justice” is very unfair to individuals like, well, Matt Kean.

What if he – or any other individual on the wrong end of this justice – is actually the most talented and hardest working? Must he really be dumped for someone worse, but of the “right” race or gender? How unjust.

How often does it happen?

The ABC, for instance, sacked the talented Red Symons as a radio host to replace him with a more “diverse” pairing – a woman and a Muslim – even though the ratings predictably fell.

Red Symons was sacked for the sake of diversity.

This kind of unfairness is now being tested in the US Supreme Court, which will hear a case alleging discrimination against Asian Americans by Harvard University, which was allegedly rigging its admissions policies to let in more lesser-qualified black students to meet its “diversity-related educational objectives”.

Of course, Kean might just be kidding himself.

Maybe he isn’t the superior candidate at all.

After all, he bullied bosses into hiring more women over men on the basis of their gender.

What a goose.