When a beer goes woke, we can point, laugh and go about our lives none worse for the wear. But prioritizing melanin over competence in the cockpit is playing a losing hand with people’s lives.

2/ The footage begins with FAA acting deputy chief operating officer Angela McCullough saying more workers need to go from "ramp to cockpit," meaning she wants to see more baggage handlers become airline pilots. pic.twitter.com/2KAeHNcJA2

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 7, 2024

In many ways this shouldn’t be shocking. It is the logical progression of the Left’s march through all our institutions where a victim hierarchy, with the spoils going to the Biggest Intersectional Victims replaces a hierarchy of competence. Remember, things we have taken for granted as Americans – meritocracy, punctuality, hard work, attention to detail – aren’t aspirational values but the mark of White Supremacy. And as every person of pallor is irredeemably racist, then scrubbing them from their ill-gotten jobs, businesses and wealth is a worthy goal. Regardless of any danger to the public.

8/ This industry-wide embrace of overt mental illness afflicts every aspect of aviation. Another source told me that his job is to design advanced military systems, but he’s constantly side-tracked by DEI proposals like “gender inclusive seatbelts.” pic.twitter.com/jtEqR8Q5JG

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 7, 2024

No word on how much DEI and/or ESG has had an effect on quality control at Boeing, but with approximately 45,000 flights per day in the United States alone, this emphasis on diversity over safety does not bode well.

For decades, commercial pilots were, for the most part, former military pilots. Pilots who already had gone through extremely vigorous training and culling of the less competent plus years of flight experience. That way is still open for working towards a commercial license, but with the FAA and airlines promoting “diverse flight decks” …

The airlines just need to start indicating which flights have a diverse cockpit. It would seem such a change would be warmly welcomed by everyone on the left and right. pic.twitter.com/4tMJaSaxxZ

— Dissident Soaps (@DissidentSoaps) February 7, 2024

… as a value over, say, “your safe arrival is our number one priority”, how confident are the dreaded yte males in the military that they’ll get a fair shot after their service?

But but but … the DEI warriors will protest … we aren’t sacrificing competence at all!

Then, dudes, you wouldn’t be doing DEI at all. You’re the ones who feel that competence has to take a backseat to melanin or pronouns or whatever the Victim-Group-Du-Jour is that keeps you in your phony-baloney DEI ESG jobs. If the NBA or NFL can hire players based on competence with no thought to how the team looks or “reflects” the racial makeup of their city, why can’t airlines do the same with pilots? Or air controllers? Or any number of jobs that, if done improperly, jeopardize the safety of others?

Let’s let DEI die. Now.

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