The British Royal Air Force (RAF) reportedly ordered a pause on job offers to white males in a bid to meet diversity targets. The RAF’s top recruiter resigned over the woke policy. But what would happen to the U.K.’s national defense if such a policy were implemented? This is NOT theoretical. They really tried to do it.
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12 replies on “The Fewer: If the Royal Air Force Stopped Taking White Males (this is NOT theoretical)”
Well done Blokes.
This insults the memory of all men who fought and those who sacrificed their lives to save Britain. Shame, shame on all the idiots who implemented this policy and who thought up these words.
The wokening of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces continues apace. There’s this current business, where the head of personnel for the RAF, Air Vice-Marshall Maria Byford, has said she’s “unashamed” of their diversity targets. This appeared in the Guardian.
The board meeting would look at ways to use “positive action” legally so recruits could potentially be selected on merit, their gender or ethnicity if they passed the basic requirements to join the service, she said.
She has denied that recruitment of white men will be suspended. This seems to be the usual squid ink and BS operation that kicks in when a Woke initiative gets exposed and attacked.
The female Group Captain in charge of recruitment has resigned from her position as she was concerned the instructions she was receiving could be illegal, but she is still a serving officer.
Back on the 7th May I wrote a blog post about Operation Teamwork, a programme being rolled out across the Army from top to bottom. Since then, I’ve had a conversation with a friend who is a serving Army officer (and pretty sound chap as a rule) he was fairly positive about Op Teamwork but was unaware of the requirement to read and approve “The Psychosis of Whiteness” by Kehinde Andrews. Maybe he just hasn’t done that bit yet.
There was disquiet at the poster issued by the Army with twenty “Indicators and warnings” soldiers should look out for as signs that their mates might be “Extreme Right Wing/XRW”. Among the indicators are describing themselves as patriots and using the term “Islamofasism”. Referring to political correctness as some sort of communist plot. Having tattoos with “overt or covert XRW iconography (given how far left the Overton Window has been dragged, does having a Union Flag tattoo count?).
Back in November 2021 the Forces own website had this headline.
Military chief: ‘Laddish culture’ is encouraged to face enemies but needs change.”
The chief in question was Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, who was appearing at a Defence Committee in the Commons. He retired late last year, and I had hoped to see a change in the wave of woke washing over Britain’s armed forces.
Friends and acquaintances of mine serving in the forces tend to be relaxed about this sort of thing and say things like “no one really takes notice”. But then, they’re mostly officers and no doubt are too professional to badmouth the forces to a civilian. I am hearing that the rank and file are rather less relaxed. Even if the PC propaganda does get into their heads, the unavoidable message that the high command sees their love of country, culture, gender, and skin colour as problems to be dealt with cannot help but undermine their confidence in that high command.
Scott’s point reminds me of the beginning of the movie “Hot Shots: Part Deux” when they come to recruit Topper (Charlie Sheen’s character) for another mission. They tell him they have lost all the teams they have sent in. He says “So you need the best of the best” and the response is “No, we need the best of what’s left.”
As a former military pilot … mind boggling!
Hmpphhh! So hey, RAF, are you really going to exclusively fly non-white pilots to defend and die for a nation that in the majority doesn’t look like them? You’re going to use Pilots of Anything-but-White-Males for cannon fodder while all the white guys get smashed on beer and pot and kick the snot out of each other at soccer matches?
That seems ‘fair’ to you? Really? It’s one thing to shoulder the burden proportionately upholding your end with the best your segment of the population has to offer. It’s another thing entirely to place that burden on a minority and try to pretend you’re being anything but bigots in multiple dimensions.
You racist bastards.
“Have you ever flown in a plane? STOP IT! That’s cultural appropriation.
Have you ever ridden in a car? STOP IT! That’s cultural appropriation.
Have you ever used electricity? STOP IT! That’s cultural appropriation.
Have you ever used indoor plumbing? STOP IT! That’s cultural appropriation.”
Another of the endless examples of the white man sacrificing the brown man so they can stay at home and sip tea, hunt fox, and harrumph. Where is Monty Python and their “Ministry of strange (t)alks”? Where is the bard, knocking coconuts together, singing “Sir Robin is running away”?
In this era of drones, no men will be needed to fly these multi-billion dollar airplanes in the future, anyway. Speaking of drone pilots, do we really want them recruited out of a population that defines themselves as victims of long term and systematic oppression? Just which side will take the aim of their missiles? I, for one, would definitely keep the controls out of my wife’s hand for a week out of every month.
Keith – I thought along the same lines. If you look at the inverse, what the RAF is saying is that we will make sure that the defense of the country from the air will be solely dependent on the 13%. We don’t need to send the 87% up as they already done their service.
Unfortunately, such thinking ignores the historical fact that even members of the 13% were used in past conflicts as both pilots and cannon fodder — just like everyone else.
It may be time to think out of the box. Cockroaches have not done their fair share, leeching off of the refuse of human society. I say we arm the roaches, unleashing them on our enemies. After all, they’re dumb, don’t speak like us, can get by on much less food, … Wait! Didn’t the English say that about the Irish, too?
Ha! Mel Brooks, too!