Hiring Practices

I fear for the host of a CBC classical music program. 

While driving, I stumbled on CBC and some classical music. 

The announcer, in his best FM voice, described the piece to be played next.  It was by a Hungarian composer and conductor who lived in Germany and Hungary in the mid-1930s.  The announcer told the story of this man. 

Hungary and Germany were at the time deeply antisemitic.  As a conductor, he refused to hire based on race, hiring on merit alone, which meant several Jews were in the orchestra.  As a result, the symphony lost its funding and was disbanded.  The symphony and the composer were, using the modern jargon, ‘cancelled.’

The announcer praised this Hungarian’s courage in standing up to the prevailing race-based hiring rules.  It showed, he said, the importance of standing against politically correct tides and was an example that we should all take to heart — that race-based hiring rules should be resisted.

I worry about the future of this announcer.  Either the CBC, with its deeply ‘woke’ culture, has a deeper sense of irony than I suspected and will allow this announcer to tell stories of heroes resisting race-based rules.  Or CBC management will wake up to the threat such stories represent to their wokeness, and he will be fired.