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Alternatively, use google, search RAF budger and realise that RAF has fired a bunch of people due to budget cuts. They are looking for another Job. China gave them a job and 10x the salary.

> RAF has smallest combat force in history with fewest fighter jets after shrinking by nearly half in just 12 years

This is typical conservative government, demand loyalty from military personel, but show them no loyalty and respect inreturn. Espouse belief in the market, then complain when the market does exactly what it's suppose to do. You can't have it both ways

> the RAF has gone the furthest, setting ambitious targets to more than double its recruitment of women to hit 40% by 2030, as well as to ensure ethnic minorities make up 20% of new recruits.

“Stopped recruiting white men“ eh?

Yeah that’s literally how race quotas work. You hire some white men, go “woah too many” and stop hiring them.

To make things easier, you do this by avoiding hiring poor whites in particular, while continuing to hire privileged whites who will celebrate your efforts as brave and courageous.

> In August, the RAF stopped recruiting 'white men'

Pause on hiring white males pushes head of British air force recruitment to resign, report says https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/pause-on-hiring-white-mal...

> Multiple British defense sources reportedly told Australia's Sky News that the head of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) recruitment office resigned over concerns an effective pause on hiring white males, in favor of people of color and women, will undermine the RAF's readiness.

> Defense sources allegedly insisted the RAF placed a pause on hiring white males in pursuit of diversity and inclusion goals.

> "You look at the head of the RAF and he's prepared to break the operational requirement of the air force just to meet diversity [targets]," one of the sources reportedly told Sky News. "I think he needs to be hauled up by the Ministry of Defence and told: This is the defense agenda, get on it."

> However, 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, according to Sky News. ...

That doesn't make sense. Even if what you're saying is true, these people who were not recruited in the first place would not have any military training or expertise that is of interest to the Chinese government.

So you think what, that these white men who didn't even get recruited are now training China with their non-existant RAF expertise that they didn't get because they weren't recruited?

Diversity is incompatible with meritocracy. RAF is gonna pay the price for letting the politics du jour impact their performance based criterias.

The meaningful point of diversity intiatives is that they find people who are better than others but who would traditionally be overlooked because of their background. Some initiatives are better executed than others, but this comment comes across as a knee-jerk reaction.

No, what you're describing is non-discriminatory hiring. Removing bias and discrimination from hiring is non-controversial across the political spectrum.

Diversity initiatives are the opposite. It's explicitly not about who's best, it's about the unrelated goal of a workplace that is racially diverse.

Demonstrate the RAF is a perfectly spherical merticocracy operating in a vacuum.

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