Islam versus Europe

Hilarious article in Le Monde today. The French government has been experimenting with anonymous CVs in some parts of the country in a pilot scheme for what should have been a nationwide roll-out. The idea behind it was typical Utopian nonsense: that members of ethnic minorities, etc. were being discriminated against because they were members of ethnic minorities, not because they lacked qualifications. If employers could only receive anonymous CVs instead, stripped of the name, age, sex and address details of the applicant, this terrible unjustice would be undone, the thinking went. But the pilot study has utterly torpedoed this ludicrous conceit.

What it found instead was that anonymous CVs actually made it much less likely than members of ethnic minorities and people living in social housing or in Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS = Sensitive Urban Zones - basically Muslim-colonised parts of the country where the rule of law no longer prevails) would be invited to an interview. And it wasn't a small difference either; it was huge! Normally 1 in 10 applicants from a ZUS would be invited to an interview compared to 1 in 8 from elsewhere. With anonymous CVs, however, the figures change to 1 in 22 from a ZUS invited to interview, compared to 1 in 6 from elsewhere.

What this tells us is that contrary to Utopian ideology, employers are in fact already positively discriminating in favour of less qualified brown people and AGAINST more highly-qualified Europeans.

It's not clear whether the plan for a national roll-out will now go ahead.