The Problem is Always Middle Aged White Men
The BBC is worried that train drivers are “overwhelmingly middled aged white men”.
Now do Uber drivers! But I digress.
Just imagine the BBC’s surprise when they learn that the train drivers in Pakistan are overwhelmingly middle aged brown men!
Dear Lord I’m sick of this non-stop racial whining. The anti-white racism in overwhelmingly white Western nations is astonishing.
Does it really matter what colour your train driver is? And besides, 82 per cent of England is white. So where’s the problem?
The UK’s public broadcaster lamented that …
“The National Skills Academy for Rail figures show that only one in ten drivers are non-white, with even fewer being women.
“The rail industry has long recognised itself as being one of the least diverse employment sectors.”
Oh my God! How will the trains run on time?!
Not to worry, Southern Railway has a talent, diversity and inclusion officer (doesn’t every corporation these days?) who told the BBC …
"It's really important that we have diversity of thinking within the railway, which is as important as diversity of ethnicity.”
Zoe Hudson never explains why the ethnic diversity of train drivers is important. And the BBC reporter never asks.
Does the pigmentation of the train driver help the train stay on the tracks?
Of course, such questions are not important. Just repeat after me …
Diversity is our strength. Toot-toot!
By the way, here’s a picture of Zoe.
She’s very … white.
Booooo!
Zoe said …
“Ultimately, the railway will look and feel different, and that will make a more successful business."
Er, exactly how will the railway look and feel different with an Indian train driver?
Or an African train driver?
Or an Asian train driver?
When was the last time you noticed the ethnicity of the bloke making sure the train from Hornsby to Central Station made it on time?
I’ve travelled by rail plenty, and not once seen the driver, let alone thought about him.
Would I have enjoyed the trip more had I known the train was piloted by a 22-year-old black woman rather than a 48-year-old white man?
Maybe.
But only if I had smoked a good deal of weed first.
Again, these highly paid diversity officers simply chant nonsense while everyone nods in furious agreement as if something profoundly righteous had just been said.
If Zoe was really committed to diversity should would have replaced herself with a transgendered woman of colour.
Diversity for thee, but not for me.
The BBC, however, was worried. It reported that despite the Zoe’s undoubted enthusiasm for race-based hiring …
“Train drivers remain overwhelmingly male, and overwhelmingly white.
“Fewer than one in ten drivers are women: 91.5% are men, 8.5% are women, up from 6% two years ago.
More than nine in ten drivers are white: 90.8%, with 9.2% coming from other ethnicities.
So what?
Do the pale stale males get people to their destinations safely? Yes? Then what’s the problem?
Do the pale stale males ensure the trains run on time? Yes? Well then I'm pretty sure the gender, much less the colour, of the driver is completely irrelevant.
And besides, most women don’t want to be train drivers just like most men don’t want to be naggy diversity officers.
We seemed to have reached a point in Western culture where a majority of white men in any situation is immediately framed as a negative that must be dealt with.
The BBC exclaims in horror that trains are driven by middle aged white men! Why report that when they could just as easily reported - admiringly - that middle aged white men were working hard!
What will the BBC do when the get their fill of brown train drivers? Will they then campaign to ensure Southern Rail has a full array of LGBTQ members in the caboose?
The madness never ends.
More lamentable drivel from woke-fearing, virtue signalling nongs who see racial, gender and sexual preference issues as existential threats to the planet and the mantra of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as the answer to every problem.
Consider this, in the not too distant future there will be no more middle aged white train drivers. Nor will there be middle aged brown train drivers... or female drivers or drivers of uncertain gender and ethnicity. In the not too distant future there will be no train drivers at all. Trains will be entirely computer driven with the aid of AI technology with almost no human input required.
And most of that tech will be made by people of Asian descent in Asian factories for the comfort and ease of all those virtue signalling navel gazers in the West.
I wonder how much diversity these whingers will be pushing for in those Asian sweatshops in a day to come when all the jobs in the West have been replaced by AI technology?
Mac are the metro trains even manned with drivers? I thought they were automated, so diversity wouldn't even be required on our metros. Maybe they just need to paint the emergency control panels different colours to represent diversity or hang rainbow flags through the carriages. (insert eye roll)
It's the same where a major construction material company I worked for had a massive lack of drivers - there's a major driver shortage everywhere - so in promoting the role they tried to entice women as well an anybody else (but not white men), but to set a target of 40% women in a non traditional role is just pure insanity - continuing to try and force diversity via targets that cannot be achieved is pure madness for businesses who struggle to recruit to being with - continuing to try and fit round pegs in square hole is the definition of insanity and counter productivity. Needless to say they are still desperate to fill driver roles surprise surprise.
The madness indeed continues and grows exponentially!!