Apparently the latest thing is diversity in aviation. The disconnect between chuds and reality is truly something to behold. Someone sent me a Jimmy Dore (lmao) clip about le ebil DEI initiatives turning aviation into madmax (Mr. Dore has also progressed to the "shilling for precious metal retirement funds" stage of chud talk show host). His dumbass cohost, with his brain leaking out his ears, got angry about how everyone "needs to pass the test". As someone who has been administering said test(s), it is just a stunning showcase of the semi-sentient state of mind he must constantly occupy.
It's amazing that it needs to be said, but -
1. Everyone needs to pass the test. Black people need to take the same tests as everyone else. Not a single person is exempt from this. Black pilots perform to the same standards as everyone else. By the time they're in the cockpit of an airliner, they've passed at least 8 separate tests (not including written exams).
2. Yes, they can cut you some slack on the tests. No, it's not a diversity thing. Most examiners are old white guys with one foot in the grave. Any leniency towards a black applicant is 100% going to be given to everyone else. If you are a member of a marginalized group you are far less likely to be receiving the positive aspects of examiner discretion, however.
3. Sometimes unqualified people slip through the cracks. This is also not a black people thing. Remember the Atlas Air fiasco? The lying on applications and being mercy passed? Happens not unfrequently, mostly from white guys though. Didn't see the same outrage when Capt. Winslow of the Colgan Air flight in 2009 lied about failing previous tests and being constantly mercy-passed.
4. No the test is not "easy". It's not a DMV test where you have to kill somebody to fail. You have to actually know how to fly the plane. Take a look for yourself.
5. Failing a test is obviously not good, but about half of people have failed at least 1. A subsequent pass means you learned from your mistakes and are now qualified. Outrage about hiring people with a "history of failure" is mostly histrionics.
6. Again, no person is exempt from testing requirements. There is no slack given to black applicants that isn't given to others.
There is literally no valid outrage material here. It's amazing what they come up with. I guess consulting people actually involved would be too much work.
Feel free to comment with any other chud outrage regarding aviation and I'll be happy to respond after being flabbergasted by the complete lack of research involved.
This seems to be in line with a lot of what they’ve been doing which is: make up some shit that aligns with racist prejudices, doesn’t have to be true, often isn’t, just has to sound plausible enough (to chuds), and then just keep blasting that message out until you can drum up enough support for some kind of legislation or policy change or whatever goal they’re going for. Basically the same shit they did with CRT
It must be such an easy grift. You just find a thing, spin a big wheel for it even, and then just say that it is being ruined by "wokeism" and "forced diversity" and then mention that they should buy your book or protein supplements or whatever to really stick it to the SJWs and you make bank.
Interestingly it’s never “there’s too much diversity at fast food restaurants” or other low wage jobs.
Hmmmm
Dore is doing goldbug shit now? How can you not love capitalism?
Specifically, the “scamming the elderly for their life savings” type
Show
Sengoku-era chuds like:
"Has forced-diversity gone too far?
I thought this country was unified under the Daimyo, not the DEI-myo..."
Diversity is when you don't install all the bolts in the plane and the more bolts you don't install the more diverse it is
Diversity in foot pounds of torque applied
What will these woke mechanics think of next
I don't understand why this is even a thing, it's completely orthogonal to Boeing making planes that fall apart or have an autopilot that auto-crashes the plane.
Damn... wtf happened to Jimmy? He used to be "Progressive" at least while Bernie was running for Pres.
He got injured by the covid vax. Every episode became about the vax conspiracy. Then bridged that to another conspiracy which bridged to another conservative conspiracy. He had a disagreement with Ron and Graham over mandates, masks, and I think the direction of the show, fired them both. Went full LaRoche bash the queers with not closeted Jackson Hinkle and the
paid him more and more. Hired the unfunny chud Kurt Metzger and it's been school yard bully hour punch down is fun ho ho he he since.I used to listen on the regular Bernie, actual progressive stuff. However once a life long entertainer so called progressive who knows very well of the queer community "i have gay friends" starts disingenuously bashing the queers on the regular
for clicks I noped out.
I've got a few cool interesting stories about stuff in my industries, but sharing would probably be a bad idea, for a whole host of reasons.
