Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Er, how can the recruitment at large last year be seen to be racist against white males when the recruitment figures demonstrably recruited almost exclusively white males?
If a brave female Group Captain had not refused to carry out an illegal order then you might have a case, but she did and therefore you haven’t.
Because it had been going on for months/years before Lizzie Nichol resigned. Look at the crowing in this RAF news article about meeting it’s targets:
https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles...e-individuals/
If you get a certain percentage of variance (ethnicity and sex) across your applicant cadre then you expect that demographic variance to convert and maybe match the intake’s variance too. Otherwise, some sort of systemic actor has been at play to make the output look different than the input (and that system was whistleblown last year by Lizzie). Oddly enough, they ran out of so-called “BAME” (I hate that term) and females after a couple of intakes as there just weren’t the applicants (that was also reported). In fact, much of this has been reported on through various media outlets… here are another couple to go with the others:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...rsity-targets/
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-08...RjO/index.html
Now, the thing is, if I had a son with a white person’s appearance who had applied for a job that they had dreamed about for years. A young lad who had put their heart and soul into Air Cadets and aviation in general. Then they had tested to be good enough on CBAT, interviews and the hangar exercises - only to be sifted out of the running for a few places because of who they were and what they looked like - I would be bloody furious. The recruitment numbers required the past few years have been suppressed - in fact, Pilot has been closed for months and has only just opened again as mentioned in this thread this weekend:
Pssssst . So with those very few places, with a systemic discriminatory policy in place, what do you think happened to those lads who may have had a better score than the “target” groups that were being recruited against? They would have been sifted out as there were no longer any places left and failed to have been recruited. The numbers being mentioned elsewhere on various forums are of those being recruited being 20-30 a year as the balance of the intake for Pilot will come from UASs and University Bursaries. So the chances of success under a system like that must have been unlikely anyway - but if you were born a boy with a pale complexion, then it was even harder thanks to the discriminatory action that has been reported since 2022 but has been in place since at least 2020 according those reports.
People should be held accountable for ruining young lives and for damaging the good reputation of a Service that has a good history of embracing diversity at a fair an reasonable pace (first black Pilot in 1918 and first woman Pilot in 1952). It really boils my p!ss that this good reputation has been damaged and no one has, yet, been held accountable.