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XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2024-01-29, Biden diversity hires nuclear... wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2023, "Happy Trump Surrender Day!"
> posted some news:uc7qkc$3gou0$2@dont-email.me:
>
>> Mentally ill liberals don't care about safety.
>
> The Federal Aviation Administration recently faced intense backlash after
> its diversity and inclusion recruitment efforts surfaced online.
>
> Among the many demographics the FAA is currently recruiting, the
> organization actively seeks people with severe physical and mental
> disabilities to join its ranks.
>
> Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government,
> as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment
> and hiring, the FAA says. They include hearing, vision, missing
> extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe
> intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.
>
> At first glance, the FAAs new diversity initiative seems absolutely
> deranged. However, anyone who has attended a university or worked in a
> corporate setting in the past few years likely would not be surprised.
> Diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology has engulfed virtually every
> major institution of American society, tossing aside qualifications and
> merit in favor of so-called equity.
>
> Diversity initiatives are nothing new. They have been a cornerstone of the
> corporate world since the conclusion of the Civil Rights Movement, an
> effort to help black Americans gain access to institutions that
> historically excluded them. These initiatives, which were initially
> exclusive to blacks, quickly expanded to include other supposedly
> oppressed groups, such as Native Americans and Latinos.
>
> Though one can argue these initiatives may have been well-intentioned, it
> is clear that they ended up empowering groups to cash in on grievances
> whether justified or imagined. For instance, the second-generation
> offspring of two wealthy Nigerian American corporate executives benefits
> from the same diversity hiring initiatives as a poor slavery descendant
> living in rural Mississippi. The narrow definition of diversity in these
> initiatives makes them easily corrupted by people who share superficial
> commonalities with the intended class but ultimately do not share much in
> common with them at all.
>
> Americans were always uneasy about giving certain preferred groups
> advantages in competitive arenas such as hiring and university admissions
> to remedy the past. How can a society fix discrimination by actively
> discriminating?
>
> A June 2023 Pew Research Center poll confirmed that Americans are largely
> divided on DEI efforts in the workplace. Fifty-eight percent of
> respondents indicated support for efforts to increase diversity and
> inclusion in the workplace. However, only 32% of respondents agreed that
> racial diversity is extremely or very important in their workplace. A
> plurality, 38%, answered that diversity is not too/not at all important.
>
> These results suggest that though Americans support diversity as a broad
> ideal, they do not view it as a priority in a workplace setting.
>
> Furthermore, more benign forms of affirmation, such as outreach efforts,
> have been replaced by hard quotas. In 2021, United Airlines faced backlash
> over setting a goal of enrolling a pilot-training class composed of 50%
> women and minorities.
>
> As the mounting backlash against DEI continues, will institutions continue
> the quest for equal outcomes, even at the expense of becoming less safe
> and competent? Is it worth making Americans more suspicious and resentful
> of each other?
>
> Corey Walker is a Washington, D.C.-based reporter who focuses on
> institutional capture, education, and public safety.
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/diversity-hiring-has-gone-out-of-
> control/ar-BB1hnoid
>
I can't wait until the FAA hires a pilot who is a black, trans woman who is
blind.
What could possibly go wrong?
SMH.
--
pothead
Tommy Chong For President 2024.
Crazy Joe Biden Is A Demented Imbecile.
Impeach Joe Biden 2022.
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