Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’

[rangerrebew]

Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’
If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards?
September 6, 2023 by Daniel Greenfield 63 Comments
 

Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr, Biden’s nominee to replace Milley as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had signed off on a memo to impose a 43% quota for white male officers in the Air Force. That would be catastrophic at a time when the Air Force is struggling with recruitment, faces a shortage of over 1,000 pilots and 86% of its pilots are white men.

Brown, who claimed that America is racist and that he faced racism when someone questioned whether he was parked in the right spot, has been obsessed with remaking the Air Force in his own image. Even with only 1 out of 2 key aircraft and bombers ready to fly, the woke chief of staff has emphasized diversity in hiring and promotion at the expense of merit and ability.

Now a Rand report funded by the Air Force shows what it will take to achieve diversity. And diversity, which is more important than winning, won’t be achieved as long as the Air Force clings to basic qualifiers like weight, test scores and no criminal record.

“The most-important barriers for all gender and racial and ethnic groupings,” the report argues, are the Air Force’s “BMI” or Body Mass Index and “height requirements” as well as the “minimum standards” for the Armed Forces Qualification Test and education standards.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/only-fat-dumb-criminals-can-make-the-air-force-diverse/

[PeteS in CA]

The whole BMI thingy was devised as a test for Belgian soldiers in the late 19th Century. Is it really bizarre to realize that those standards are really inapplicable to people of a century plus later and of a wider variety of ethnic heritages than 19th Century Flemings? I wonder how many Olympic wrestlers, weight lifters, boxers, and others would be labeled "fat" by BMI standards.

[Kamaji]

The whole BMI thingy was devised as a test for Belgian soldiers in the late 19th Century. Is it really bizarre to realize that those standards are really inapplicable to people of a century plus later and of a wider variety of ethnic heritages than 19th Century Flemings? I wonder how many Olympic wrestlers, weight lifters, boxers, and others would be labeled "fat" by BMI standards.

As to the last point:  Quite a few, actually.