UK diversity allowed rapist to become cop

[Syne]

Diversity quota allowed UK man with child rape accusations to become a cop — he then committed more horrific rapes
A man who was allowed to become a police officer despite child rape accusations was later convicted of a horrific campaign of rape that included a child under 13 years of age.

The victims of 24-year-old Cliff Mitchell described him as "the devil" and "a pathetic excuse of a man" over the horrific abuse he committed as a U.K. police officer.

Even worse, Mitchell was allowed to become an officer despite the past child rape allegations because he fit a diversity quota when officials were driving to recruit more officers.

Mitchell's application was denied in 2020 over the 2018 allegations, but an admission panel overturned the decision and allowed him to join the force.

Prosecutors said Mitchell used a knife to kidnap one of his victims in Sept. 2023. He tied her arms with cable ties and put tape over her mouth before raping her. Mitchell laughed at her cries and told her no one would believe her because he was an officer.

Mitchell was convicted of 10 counts of rape, 4 counts of rape of a child under 13, one count of kidnap, and a breach of a non-molestation order.
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- https://www.theblaze.com/news/uk-mitchel...d-sex-rape

[Zinjanthropos]

Perhaps crime victims belong in the diverse category? Some more diverse than other victims?

Could be wrong but it seems diversity has a lot to do with ranges and numbers. If so, then in a world with 2bn Muslims, would Jews with a population of only 15mn qualify as being diverse? Globally then, does the multiple ranges of human differences categorize Jews as more diverse than Muslims? Or does locally mean more than globally?

This Mitchell guy is black. Not sure of his victims. He caught a break, found a loophole that perhaps shouldn’t be there. You screw around with this stuff enough and seems like someone always gets crapped on, like rape victims in this case.

[Syne]

Muslims are usually considered the more "diverse" minority in Western countries, even though:

In Western countries, there are generally more Muslims than Jews, and the Muslim population is growing at a faster rate.
- Google AI

Mostly because many Jews look white, so Westerners don't consider their ethnic minority status.

[Zinjanthropos]

Muslims are usually considered the more "diverse" minority in Western countries, even though:

In Western countries, there are generally more Muslims than Jews, and the Muslim population is growing at a faster rate.
- Google AI

Mostly because many Jews look white, so Westerners don't consider their ethnic minority status.

Interesting if it’s true that white and a member of religious minority doesn’t make you diverse. Like I said too much leads to some odd situations.

From personal experience I know better than to tackle diversity head on. It’s even in sports and affects the safety of players. Been a basketball ref for over 40 years. There’s always been rules and there still are regarding what players can wear. No jewellery or hardware like bobby pins & hair clips, etc, nothing hard on the forearm, no exposed metal braces, nothing loose that can cause a player to accidentally slip on should it fall off or loose enough that a player’s finger can slip under like a band on the arm. Hell, we once had rules for spiked hair and long fingernails. Used to be pretty straight forward, players remove dangerous equipment or they don’t play. Not any more. Even if something worn fits the criteria for dangerous we now disregard if they are part of a religious belief. Tough to tell some kids they can’t wear illegal equipment when another is allowed because of religion.

[Syne]

Yeah, there's always exceptions that benefit the minority or disadvantage the majority. All rules should be equally applied, but the left keeps demanding affirmative action, DEI, and other means of making the playing field uneven.

[C C]

Yeah, there's always exceptions that benefit the minority or disadvantage the majority. All rules should be equally applied, but the left keeps demanding affirmative action, DEI, and other means of making the playing field uneven.

As George Carlin would say, honest words like "____" have to be masked by euphemisms. "Positive discrimination" is too open or direct an expression for the internal contradiction it highlights.

CRT has long attacked liberalism as not being left enough (polices of the far-left eventually blend into far-right tendencies, to form a political circle): "The liberal notion of U.S. law as 'neutral' plays a significant role in maintaining a racially unjust social order, where formally color-blind laws continue to have racially discriminatory outcomes."

[Syne]

Yeah, there's always exceptions that benefit the minority or disadvantage the majority. All rules should be equally applied, but the left keeps demanding affirmative action, DEI, and other means of making the playing field uneven.

As George Carlin would say, honest words like "____" have to be masked by euphemisms. "Positive discrimination" is too open or direct an expression for the internal contradiction it highlights.

Pope Francis Warns Of ‘Cancel Culture’ That Doesn’t Allow ‘Freedom Of Expression’
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“As I have stated on other occasions, I consider this a form of ideological colonization, one that leaves no room for freedom of expression and is now taking the form of the ‘cancel culture’ invading many circles and public institutions,” the pope warned.

“Under the guise of defending diversity, it ends up canceling all sense of identity, with the risk of silencing positions that defend a respectful and balanced understanding of various sensibilities,” he added. “A kind of dangerous ‘one-track thinking’ [pensée unique] is taking shape, one constrained to deny history or, worse yet, to rewrite it in terms of present-day categories, whereas any historical situation must be interpreted in the light of a hermeneutics of that particular time, not that of today.”...
- https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-fran...expression

Ideological colonization of language.

CRT has long attacked liberalism as not being left enough (polices of the far-left eventually blend into far-right tendencies, to form a political circle): "The liberal notion of U.S. law as 'neutral' plays a significant role in maintaining a racially unjust social order, where formally color-blind laws continue to have racially discriminatory outcomes."

Yeah, the horseshoe theory of politics, where the extreme ends meet up. It's breeding the same victimhood and grievance culture among some disaffected whites that it had minorities.