What Is Going On?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/raf-pauses-job-offers-for-white-men-to-meet-impossible-diversity-targets-12674409
Why are TROB so racist? Surely they should recruit the best person for the job in all cases.

[Gromit]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1807065.html

[TheChair]

//An RAF spokesperson disputed the allegations.

"There is no pause in Royal Air Force recruitment and no new policy with regards to meeting in-year recruitment requirements," the spokesperson said.//

But hey, let's just go with the story that triggers the most.

[Kardashev]

I've never understood these attempts at "positive" discrimination. For one thing discrimination is always negative and for another surely in any job you'd want to hire the best person regardless of race etc.

[vulcan42]

If there is no change, why did the head of recruitment resign her position because of a change to recruitment?

[sp1814]

vulcan42

Whee did you read that?

In the link I see:

The senior female officer apparently handed in her notice in recent days amid concerns that any such restrictions on hiring, however temporary and limited, could undermine the fighting strength of the Royal Air Force (RAF), the sources said.

What was her name and rank?

[Togo]

""The push has resulted in the military org’s head of recruitment resigning her post, with the unnamed senior female officer lambasting the “impossible” targets as amounting to an “effective pause” on the hiring of white men.""

Sky News.

[Togo]

""The head of the RAF's recruitment team has quit amid reports suggesting the force has effectively placed a pause on hiring white men in order to meet diversity targets.

The Group Captain, whose identity is yet to be revealed, has stepped down from the post but remains an RAF officer, the Ministry of Defence revealed.""

Gb News.

[youngmafbog]

There is no such thing as positive discrimination.

Any discrimination is well just discrimination and all it does is to serve those who want to be divisive with more ammo.

It needs to be stopped or we will never be in harmony.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

So that's all discrimination right? I can imagine that someone like you who rails again positive discrimination has equally condemned racial discrimination, antisemitism, sexism etc in the past?

[DTCwordfan]

well that is one story that has been shot down.

[douglas9401]

Not Answerbank's finest hour.

[vulcan42]

sp1814, Togo has answered your question.