Making the news today....

[Mesterh]

Ok. You have a job interview, you did or didn't get the job for the following reasons.

1. You didn't get the job because you're white. Discrimination.

2. You did get the job because you're white. Positive discrimination.

 

 

 

[Doug Tait]

Just possibly he's an entitled, average chap that can't come to terms with not getting the career he wanted.

Let's face it, if he was as highly suitable as he believes he was personally, another one of the 80% of successful applicants that were white males would have been 'discriminated' against in favour of him.

 

Also, he says that having no demonstrable leadership ability shouldn't matter because he'd get leadership training for the role. I'm not convinced, I think it entirely appropriate to select people for a leadership position with previous experience or a natural aptitude for it before training.

 

 

From the article...

An RAF spokesman said: “At no point did the RAF recruitment process select ethnic minority and female pilots over better qualified white male pilots. Over 80 per cent of our recruits during the period in question were white men.

[Doug Tait]

Another thought, if you've only got a few positions available and hundreds of applicants you have to discriminate against the majority in some way to choose the successful few.

[Mesterh]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It has its place.

Should Oxbridge select it’s students purely on exam results, in which case public school kids would take the huge majority of places based on the parents ability to pay for private education?

 

Or should the children, equally as gifted, but who went to state schools, be denied top university places because of understandably less impressive numbers?

That doesn't make any sense though. If the state school kids were equally gifted then Shirley they will have achieved the same exam results?

 

Or am I missing something?

[Mark Bolam]

Some state schools have shite teachers mate.

It’s not all about your natural intelligence.

 

I was lucky, my state school had good ones.

 

Some private schools clearly have poor teachers as well.

A few of my posho mates were undiagnosed dyslexics pretty much until they left.

 

A posho mate down here is currently spending £80k/year on posho education for his kids.

He can well afford it, and they’re nice kids, coming along grand.

Very polite, maybe a bit precocious, but in a nice way?

 

It’s all about the connections, apparently.

 

I just think if you’ve got that kind of dollar your kids aren’t exactly going to fail in life, are they?

 

FWIW I very much doubt the RAF discriminate in any way on pilots jobs.

 

Best man (or woman) for the job, simple.

Ridiculous combination of brains, reflexes, vision, hand-eye coordination, mental strength, physical ability to withstand G’s, language skills etc.

 

They will just take the best.

They have to.

 

I applied and failed because my knob was too big to fit in the cockpit of a Eurofighter.

 

THAT’S positive discrimination Stubby!

[topchippyles]

35 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

 

 

I applied and failed because my knob was too big to fit in the cockpit of a Eurofighter.

 

THAT’S positive discrimination Stubby!

Wishful thinking bolam 🤣

Edited February 4, 2023 by topchippyles

[eggsarascal]

6 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Some state schools have shite teachers mate.

It’s not all about your natural intelligence.

 

I was lucky, my state school had good ones.

 

Some private schools clearly have poor teachers as well.

A few of my posho mates were undiagnosed dyslexics pretty much until they left.

 

A posho mate down here is currently spending £80k/year on posho education for his kids.

He can well afford it, and they’re nice kids, coming along grand.

Very polite, maybe a bit precocious, but in a nice way?

 

It’s all about the connections, apparently.

 

I just think if you’ve got that kind of dollar your kids aren’t exactly going to fail in life, are they?

 

FWIW I very much doubt the RAF discriminate in any way on pilots jobs.

 

Best man (or woman) for the job, simple.

Ridiculous combination of brains, reflexes, vision, hand-eye coordination, mental strength, physical ability to withstand G’s, language skills etc.

 

They will just take the best.

They have to.

 

I applied and failed because my knob was too big to fit in the cockpit of a Eurofighter.

 

THAT’S positive discrimination Stubby!

Lying tw@t, I’ve seen it.

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

 

THAT’S positive discrimination Stubby!

Ah , I get it now . See , it only had to be explained properly !

[difflock]

I would however suggest, and rather strongly, that the dice are now decidedly unfairly stacked against the bright children from the fee paying schools, in favour of the genuinely  less bright, especially if female/lesbian/black/disabled/alphabet soup types getting to attend the elite universities.

Our PSNI watered down the entrance standards, but only for woman and RC's while blocking better male candidates from a Protestant background, while also fastracking promotion for those favoured applicants up past better males with Protestant backgrounds. And the PSNI is now a shambles. All these "positive" discrimination schemes do is cause division, mistrust and envy. Where even if a lesbian/disabled/woman was actually the best candidate we all think, "hmmm, I know why she got that job or promotition".

I rather successfully wound up our female HR officer by saying that we all discriminate, in our choice of where we live, the cars we drive, did she drive a Skoda, or cough cough, perhaps a BMW,  etc etc etc. 

Edited February 5, 2023 by difflock

[Johnsond]

Liz Truss: I was brought down by the left-wing economic establishment

APPLE.NEWS

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Exclusive: In an essay for The Telegraph, former PM stands by her policies and criticises Rishi...

Sour grapes or an indication of the reality of who is pulling the strings , and who benefits the most from our current high tax high interest and massive state spending !!. 

Edited February 5, 2023 by Johnsond