This week, the United Airlines flight school, United Aviate Academy, announced which now accepts applications and plans to train 5,000 new pilots over the next decade and that 50% of these pilots will be women and people of color. For reasonable people, it seems that United is looking to diversify the aerospace industry and present more opportunities to underserved communities, but to conservative experts like Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson of the UK, Piers Morgan, this is an argument that will cause planes from the sky during a kidnapping of affirmative action because, apparently, only white men are capable of being pilots.
From Newsweek:
Wednesday’s fee of Tucker Carlson tonightCarlson said: “Security is no longer the airline’s main concern: identity policy is.”
“The way people look is completely irrelevant. Your performance is all you have to worry about. Once you forget about it, planes tend to crash … Hiring on the basis of irrelevant criteria, over time, will cause people to die and so it will, ”he said. “We must fight for the colorblind meritocracy for real. I mean, our lives depend on meritocracy. ”
Carlson called United’s initiative “a combination of a hyperaggressive corporate human resources department and a left-wing political action committee … important in moral pronouncements and mandatory social engineering.”
Let me see; what is the most sophisticated way to say it?
Tucker Carlson is a racist and misogynist idiot.
The “colorblind meritocracy” has never literally existed in America. But mediocre white men will never recognize the fact that mediocre white men have by far the greatest power in the western world and that is why they dominate the workforce in almost every industry, not just because they are more capable than the women. and people of color.
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Training to learn to fly an airplane will not change because it is taken by a black person or woman, and there is no reason to think that non-white men get a license to fly an airplane without showing the knowledge and skills to complete it. formation. But Carlson, the guy who too he does not believe that women belong to the army, as if the thousands of women serving in the armed forces probably wouldn’t hit their mother fucking ass, she doesn’t believe it because, well, she’s a racist and misogynist idiot.
More from Newsweek:
In a statement issued on the day Twitter, United announced, “All highly qualified candidates we accept into the academy, regardless of race or gender, must have met or exceeded the standards set for admission.”
However, Carlson said the company was lying.
“We know they’re lying and you know it too,” he said, “because in the airline business there’s only one standard that matters, and it’s not race or gender. It’s competition.”
Carlson is not the only fragile white man who ignores the fact that the historical lack of diversity initiatives in the corporate world is the only reason white men think they are the face of meritocracy. Morgan, the guy who came out of a set like a little puppy after being called to use her platform to give Meghan Markle unbelievable energy—he wrote an entire piece about her ass in response to the United ad titled, “What will happen to the corporate warriors who woke up, the blind pilots?”
First of all: One of these days, I will write an article about how the right-wing narrative according to which diversity is part of a progressive “awakened” trend is basically them admitting that conservatism is synonymous with whiteness. But for now, let’s focus on the fact that Morgan has hinted that allowing non-white men to fly planes is similar to letting a blind person fly.
Morgan wrote that when it comes to your flight-related worries, “I certainly don’t care about the gender or skin color of a pilot,” because I clearly don’t realize THAT THIS SHIT IS NOT FOR YOU , WHITE MAN: This is about creating opportunities for women and people of color to get jobs in a white field dominated by men.
Morgan even went so far as to falsify a false rule and asked why no one seeks to diversify the NBA dominated by black men. (Yes, the British Bill O’Reilly really went there.)
The truth is that Carlson, Morgan, and all the other conservative snowflakes who take their pearls only white for the mere mention of the word “diversity” are as fragile as they are racist and sexist.
The world is changing around it and advocating for the corporate world to reflect the diversity of the population, and now everything that comes out of their mouths is a variation of, “Wouldn’t anyone please think of white men?”
It’s pathetic, but what more can be expected of people who don’t seem to understand that diversity and meritocracy are not mutually exclusive.