I had to serve alongside people that claimed to support the KKK

Not that I have any respect for American klansmen, but if you’re an ocean away larping as a klansman then you’re just that much more of a dork. They should light up a cross and do us all a favor and throw themselves on it.

Also her skin is crazy good. Practically glows.

An MoD spokesperson said: “We do not tolerate abuse, bullying or discrimination of any kind and encourage any personnel who believe they have experienced or witnessed unacceptable behaviour to report it. All allegations of unacceptable behaviour are taken extremely seriously and are thoroughly investigated. If proven, swift action will be taken.

“The MoD settled this claim with Kerry-Ann Knight in June, with no admission of liability.”

“We’ve investigated ourselves, found nothing, done nothing, admitted to nothing, but here’s a nice PR-friendly answer and some money to fuck off.”

Does that recruitment poster seriously try to recruit people by offending them? Is the military stupid?

"But from the outset, she said, she did not feel welcome. In her witness statement she detailed how colleagues “took it in turns to shout out ‘watermelooooon!’ anytime I walked into the room. Every time they did this the others would laugh,” she said, adding that she “felt humiliated and mocked”.

She heard colleagues talking about her “getting lynched” and being “tarred and feathered”. One said he would put her in a “hot box” – a reference to a scene in the film Django Unchained in which a black female slave is tortured by being locked inside a wooden coffin-type box.

In her statement, Knight said the Tarantino film “was regularly played by my colleagues – seemingly on repeat”.

Over several years, Knight tried to raise complaints about the racism and misogyny, informally at first and then formally, through Service Complaints, the grievance scheme for members of the armed forces. She backed up her complaints with evidence, including WhatsApp screenshots and audio recordings.

However, after submitting a service complaint about her treatment at AFC Harrogate she was removed from her role training junior soldiers, on the basis that her “mental or emotional state [was] sufficiently at risk of deterioration that she should not be in a [junior soldier-]facing role at this time”.

“I think when it got to that stage, that’s when I just realised that the army is institutionally racist,” Knight said. “And they would go above and beyond in order to discredit me as an individual, in order to protect the army image, to portray that racism doesn’t exist, even though it was there in black and white.”

What the actual fuck?

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