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Is a Diversity Hire to Blame for the Sinking of a $100 Million New Zealand Navy Ship?
PJ Media ^ | 10/07/2024 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 10/07/2024 8:54:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/07/2024 8:54:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The Court of Inquiry needs to look into what role, if any, NZDF's aggressive "diversity" policies played in the ship's sinking. The ship's commanding officer was Commander Yvonne Gray, a British woman who moved to New Zealand in 2012 with her lesbian "wife." Gray had served in the British Navy since 1993 before joining the New Zealand Navy. 

In a New Zealand Reddit forum, some have accused Gray of "jumping the line."

"She could be the best commander weve ever had, but in my eye shes still scum for cutting in line," one contributor noted. "How the f**k are we supposed to encourage people to take up a career in the navy or other armed forces branches, when you get foreign transfers cutting in across the top of local career officers and taking plum jobs like Captain. There's people in the service for decades that would have seen their career progression hopes dashed, because some English officer came here on a holiday, thought it was lovely and in less than 5 years is given command of our third biggest and newest ship." [Typos original]

Another pointed out that she may have been allowed to "cut in line" due to military retention problems.

The NZDF's website, ablaze with rainbow flags, notes

The New Zealand Defence Force's active commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workplace is part of our drive to keep our people well, included, respected, enabled and safe so they can do their job to the best of their ability, have a fulfilling career and ultimately, contribute to a high performing Defence Force.

The benefits of increasing the diversity of our workforce and inclusion of all people include ensuring we can:


2 posted on 10/07/2024 8:55:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes.


3 posted on 10/07/2024 8:58:13 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

A totally competent crew could have “carried” her....


4 posted on 10/07/2024 9:03:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

People who get angry at this are not generally angry at women, per se.

They are angry about the war on competency going on in the West. And it is going on nearly everywhere.


5 posted on 10/07/2024 9:07:22 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel; SeekAndFind

(With apologies to all good and Godly Tamaras and derivatives)

Many of us are sick beyond belief of TAMIs.

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The poster girl:

Kammi the Tami!


6 posted on 10/07/2024 9:18:14 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I read about that and I did wonder if DIE sank it...


7 posted on 10/07/2024 9:22:27 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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I admit that I feel sympathy for people who might be categorized in one of those buckets, but got to where they are on the basis of their hard work and talent.

That is, I think, the most egregious thing about DIE or Affirmative Action-those who CAN perform are tainted by that. And there isn’t any easy way of getting around it.


8 posted on 10/07/2024 9:28:51 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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“A totally competent crew could have ‘carried’ her....”

If they respected her. People are sick of being put in positions of having to keep their mouths shut and pretend they’re ok with deviants being in charge. My guess is they let the dyke sink the ship.


9 posted on 10/07/2024 10:00:08 PM PDT by chuckb87
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To: SeekAndFind

The photo is of the old MANAWANUI (A09) which was decommissioned in 2018. The MANAWANUI that sank was a much more impressive and capable ship.


10 posted on 10/07/2024 10:16:11 PM PDT by punchamullah
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All signs point to Yes


11 posted on 10/07/2024 10:16:32 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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And the double standards in play, don’t forget that.


12 posted on 10/07/2024 10:17:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Yes.


13 posted on 10/07/2024 11:34:46 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: SeekAndFind

she hit a beaver dam?


14 posted on 10/08/2024 12:47:47 AM PDT by Jaysin (Trump can't be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I bet you had a Magic 8 Ball when you were a kid.


15 posted on 10/08/2024 1:28:13 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like the resentment is from having a Limy run a Kiwi ship—as if they haven’t been under the thumb of the English all alone.


16 posted on 10/08/2024 1:33:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: rlmorel

the cancer runs deep and it will be the death of the west


17 posted on 10/08/2024 2:12:42 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Actions speak louder than words.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 2:45:16 AM PDT by chopperk (are)
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she should have went down with the ship instead of going down with another...oops. probably in trouble now.


19 posted on 10/08/2024 2:48:32 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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This is not the first a ship has run aground and sunk. It is not the last time.

The inquiry should be if they did the right thing or not. If not, then demote those responsible and/or discharge them.


20 posted on 10/08/2024 3:17:31 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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