Unsurprisingly, the European Parliament’s handling of Mersch’s appointment was widely ridiculed, and his nomination was eventually confirmed. But many people drew the wrong conclusion from the episode, which they viewed as affirming the idea that competence and experience must always trump ill-conceived ideas about positive discrimination.
毫不奇怪，欧洲议会对摩尔什任命的处理遭到了千夫所指，而摩尔什的任命最终还是得到了批准。但许多人从此得出了错误的结论——他们认为能力和经验应该毫无例外地压倒积极歧视的错误观念。如果没有合适的女性候选人，则就应该让最佳候选人胜出，不管他是什么性别。