Photo from an excellent X post by The Sanity Retention Institute @SanityRetention here
NZ Minister of Defense Judith Collins is Livid that on line social media commentary has been zeroing in on the fact that the commander of the HMNZS Manawanui was hired to fulfill the Navy’s Woke ‘Diversity and inclusion’ policies that has seen a number of top positions filled with woman.
Collin’s is a typical powertriper who want’s to tell the public what they should think.
She certainly does not appreciate the Governments PC Hiring policies being put in the spotlight after the loss of a 150 million dollar Navy Ship.
It has been reported here by Author John McLean that in recent times The Navy has made a big deal about inclusivity of woman… Yvonne Grey not only being a woman but also a lesbian, yet now that disaster has struck Judith Collins seeks to red herring the NZ public by pretending that any critisism of the Navy’s hire policies are false and ‘extremely mysogynistic’.
Collins denies Diversity hire was a thing in the Navy… she insisted Grey was awarded the position on merit.
Screen shot from an excellent opinion piece by Redbaiter on X
Watch the video and read the commentary…. It is just one of many excellent opinion pieces that have been written on this very embarrassing sinking of the NZ Navy Vessel.
She even claims such Misogynistic online abuse has resulted in ‘Woman in uniforms are being abused on the streets!
Really?
This smacks of total Bullshit to me!
As for any possibly false wild speculations going on on line… IMO that is *Her Fault* for not being up front about what happened!
We should not have to wait for a ‘court of inquiry’ to hear the basic testimony about what occurred!
Further more… and this is the truly *1984* part of Collins comments…. she made it clear that she (the government) took the trouble of ‘investigating’ people who made negative comments on social media about the Wreak!
The EVIL EYE of the State now turns upon us if we dare express opinions they don’t like!
That’s Stalinism… North Korea China type tyranny type stuff whereby the want a population too scared to critisise them!
As for denying ‘Diversity hire’ is a thing in the Navy who the hell is she trying to kid? We all know and see that Woke travesty being implemented in government and the private sector… all day every day!
People who have been consciously selected for positions on the basis of their ethnicity or Sex.
If the people are now suspicious that the Captain of the Vessel was one of those sorts of ‘diversity hires’ well that isn’t because they are *Misogynistic* but because we know that is a policy of Idiot organisations today so they can virtue signal and appear woke and not be accused of being bigoted.
The stricken HMNZS Manawanui. Samoa. Reports say 200 000 liters of fuel has been spilled into the ocean. Photo from here
An excellent critique of Defense minister Collins patent gaslighting was published by Counterspin Media NZ on X here
Diversity hire is Navy policy.
Excerpt… ” And while Collins has insisted that various women in positions of leadership within the NZDF have been appointed based on merit, rather than diversity quotas, a little digging destroys that claim.
In 2023 for instance, an OIA request (attached) was made to the NZDF in regards to gender equality, which is most interesting…
According to the NZDF OIA response, the organsiation adopted the principles of the UNITED NATIONS WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLES (WTF?!) after being invited by the ‘NZ Women’s Empowerment Principles Committee’ to do so.
The rainbow warriors at the NZDF also attached a ‘Champions of Gender Equality Charter’ to the OIA. The fact that they even have a document like that goes to show just how ‘woke’ and infected with cultural Marxism the organisation has become.
It is also worth remembering that circa 2016, the NZDF went about changing job titles to remove the word ‘man’ from them, (for e.g. from ‘General List Seaman’ to ‘General List Warfare’) in order to be seen as modern and progressive.”
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So there you have it! Diversity hire is Navy policy!
Yet let’s pause for a moment.
What if Grey really was the most competent applicant for the position of Commander?
Even so… She may indeed be worthy, yet when ‘Diversity hire’ is a thing you destroy any faith the public can have that she was hired on merit.
Diversity hire puts things like Sex, and race high up the list of criteria for hiring staff. It is well known it skews the employment process and means competence can place second to diversity quotas.
And if Equality for woman really is the ideal then she must be prepared to weather the storm of public scrutiny and guile the same as if a man was at the helm. Collins reaction is typical of Feminists who play the victim mentality whenever they are held to the flame!
* She is the one playing the sexist card here*.
Rabid feminism!
*We know you are full of crap
@JudithCollinsMP *
Take a look at this Feeble PC Beta Male leading our Navy here
This is what’s left after all the so called ‘Toxic Masculinity’ has been squeezed out!
As for the so-called ‘Official investigation’ Should New Zealanders have confidence???
Not Likely! John McLean says… “The Inquiry seems to be organised so that the Navy can protect its own back as well as its policies, including – and especially – the criteria for promotion in this ever more feminine (and feminist) service. As Peter Cresswell pointed out on his Not PC Blog “An inquiry by the Navy about the Navy doesn’t give confidence that we’ll ever know much more”.
” the Navy has compounded the problem by appointing as chair of the Inquiry into the disaster yet another person who can only too easily be perceived to be another of its over-promoted women – in this case Commodore Melissa Ross, who also ticks the boxes that seem to be more and more important in naval promotions – in her case being both female and part-Maori…
So passionate is she about the importance of promoting women in the Navy (apparently because they are women rather than on merit) that the Navy website of 6 December, 2019, stated of her: “She is passionate about the development of women in the military and was co-chair of the N.Z. Defence Force’s Women’s Development Steering Group, which she helped create”.
How could anyone have faith in such an Inquiry, headed by one who appears to be so fanatically committed to her fellow female officers as to bring her objectivity into doubt? Commodore Ross is the very last person who should be involved in an inquiry into the sinking of the Manawanui.
The New Zealand Navy is a small affair where everybody knows everybody else and that is especially true of the coterie of powerful female officers who all seem to be of the same stripe – of advancing women (and covering up for them?) at the expense of men. Obviously Melissa Ross and Yvonne Gray know each other – probably very well. If a litigant in court is known to the judge, that is always pointed out and the judge will normally remove himself from the case. So why not follow this rule for the naval Inquiry?”
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So Judith Collins must think the New Zealand Public are gullible idiots to expect us to have faith in such a farcical investigation!
As if the findings will ever call into question the employment processes that led to Yvonne Grey’s appointment as Commander of the Vessel.
We the people of New Zealand have the right to question the impact the Woke politicized Diversity hire is having on the quality of performance by our Navy!
Obviously placing Politically correct quotas ahead of Competence is a massive Fools game that risks many peoples lives!
My Message to Judith (She was tagged into my X Commentary) is Stop treating New Zealanders like naughty children and release the preliminary information you have on your desk!
Answer the fundamental questions such as was the vessel drifting or under power when it hit!
Stop the stone walling and obfuscation!
Until you do that… until you give us some facts…. do us a favour… if you don’t like what’s being said on line … just scroll past!
Rumours, speculations, and falsehoods love a vacuum… you are responsible for that.
The longer you dither about the more the suspicions grow.
And we have the right to discuss these matters and draw our own conclusions.
Do you get that?
Probably not.
And for goodness sake get Impartial Investigators on to this so that we get real answers… and so the people of NZ can have confidence that we will hear the truth.
As John McLean States… “For an Inquiry to be credible in should be headed by the Judge Advocate of the Armed Forces with two others: one from Britain’s Royal Navy and the other from the Royal Australian Navy. Only then could the public, whose taxes have to pay for a $130 million replacement vessel, have confidence in the outcome of the Inquiry. The choice of Melissa Ross to head it is yet another example of Judith Collins’ notoriously bad judgement.”
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That seems like a reasonable expectation to me.
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.
