My problem, over the last week, has been dealing with my anger with the converged. Most of the time I can ignore them, but when gender equity comes up in a research society, and I get emails from about such, when we are running wards well over save numbers, I seethe. Because there is a delusion out there that we have a lot of money and a lot of people.
We don’t. I work in a socialized system, where there are plenty of HR people and contract people who appease the ministry of health that runs things but seems to place all responsibility anywhere but the current womble who is the minister, and who want us to be nice, do wonderful work, fill in all their forms, and not make mistakes.
There are academics arguing about gender equity when we cannot recruit academics because, bluntly, you can make considerably more working as a clinician, particularly if you are a psychiatrist. There are two such in my town: we are both male, and we don’t care about gender or religion or quotas. We just want someone who is qualified for the job, when the demands are irrational — that one does a post fellowship research degree for a pay cut.
And yelling at us about inequity helps not a whit.
I have to admit, it is certainly informative to learn that shrieking “racist sexist transphobic bigot anti-semite global warming denier” at those who disagree with you and attempting to discredit and disemploy them is nothing more than “adhering to the laws and customs and moderation and good manners and common sense.”
Regardless, watching SJWs try to play the naive liberal is like seeing a cannibal answer the door while wearing the skin of his most recent victim.
One of the things that these people want to do is bring in quotas, to signal their virtue. That, like that fool who is the Canadian PM, half the ministers are women, or black. or whatever. and to do that, they have to shut out others. Affirmative discrimination is exclusion. Of the more qualified.
And where I am, this is not the issue. It is getting people qualified. We need more people, and that is before considering that I will hit my use-by date as an academic in the next 15 years.
The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God. Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.
I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.
Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name.
(3 John ESV)
Say Hi to Scruffy, who has been running around my legs, climbing on the computer, and demanding attention.
Diotrephes is like my cat. He wants to be the priority. He wants to put himself forward. He wants to signal his virtue. The way he does this by damning others. By not allowing those who are preaching the gospel in. By saying to his group that we are more holy, more righteous, and that the others are in error.
I have seen this too frequently. It is one of the stigma of the cults, but there is a fuzzy boundary where the Amish and Mennonites, the ultra Calvinists, the fervent Orthodox and the more crunchy Catholics live. The love of their tradition and their fervent love for the LORD can morph into a kind of spiritual pride where all other groups are seen as not Christian and one is praying not for their salvation, but that they will repent of their Papism, Calvinism, Anabaptism or pan-Slavic attitude.
But we are all of Christ. The church is more like a hedge.
And, though Scruffy thinks he is the most important person in the house, he is wrong.
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