The cult of diversity is becoming dangerous
by Allison Pearson, Telegraph:
Those best able to do a job should be appointed to it – but from the Royal Navy to the Post Office this is not happening.
I’m curious. What was your first thought when you read in this paper that the Navy has so few sailors that it has to decommission two warships to staff its new class of frigates? (Intake for both the Navy and Royal Marines dropped by a shocking 22.1 per cent compared with the previous year.)
Mine was that if you repeatedly tell your young people that their country is hateful, its history despicable, its beautiful flag a symbol of oppression, its global legacy odious, then don’t be surprised when there is a lack of volunteers to defend that country or dedicate their lives to its betterment.
Additionally, if boys are brought up thinking masculinity is “toxic” rather than strong, occasionally noble, and really rather useful for opening stubborn jars and protecting women and children, likely lads may not exactly sprint to the nearest careers office which, in any case, is no longer manned by a mutton-chopped Captain Poldark to paint them an exciting picture of life on the ocean waves. If, that is, we are allowed any longer to say anything is ”manned”. Today’s would-be marines are, presumably, required by HR to tick one of the 56 available genders.
The sense that our once-mighty Royal Navy may be at a dangerous tipping point was reinforced last week when it was revealed that it had been reduced to advertising on LinkedIn for a new Rear Admiral – Director of Submarines. “Experience of commanding a submarine or, you know, living underwater in some capacity, an advantage. Please bring own flippers.”
[…] Women are the solution to this Armed Forces recruitment crisis, according to Grant Shapps, who succeeded the admirable Ben Wallace as Secretary of State for Defence. “Something which I’m extremely passionate about is actually having a military which should represent our country as it is today,” said Shapps. “It can’t be right that our military still only has 11 or 12 per cent women, for example, when they make up half the population.”
How entirely predictable, yet how deeply depressing, that diversity is trotted out as the answer to a problem which urgently requires a lot of good men.
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