Passenger plane from Wichita collides with DC police helicopter minutes ago arriving to Dulles

Please provide evidence of airlines and the ATC making "DEI" hires for years. Please provide statistical evidence of there being more aircraft incidents since whatever make believe DEI programs you think exist were initiated. Or even an NTSB report where a contributing cause of an incident/accident was

Aviation safety requires objective evaluation of competency for any operational role. The system breaks down without that. The industry has definitely tried to expand the overall hiring pool in the past 2 decades simply to help the labor force. That's not DEI because if you're not qualified you're not gonna get hired. There has been no lessening of expectations; if anything they have gotten stricter in order to continue to improve the safety margins of the industry.

Just remember how big DEI was/is for woke dems and those who vote for them. Trump was criticized today for mentioning DEI. Leftards still think that DEI somehow (exactly how is never mentioned) and that mentioning DEI is bigoted/racist/homophobic and system institutional racism. Like I said, they have learned nothing from the November vote. It is still just messaging. But having an actual conversation about it is bad form.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/01/30/flashback-bidens-faa-focused-on-diversity-hired-workers-with-severe-disabilities-n4936514

Matt Margolis | 12:21 PM on January 30, 2025    

While we don’t know yet what caused the midair collision between the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and a civilian airliner in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, renewed attention is turning to Biden-era DEI initiatives at the FAA and whether they may have played a role.

“The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website,” the New York Post reported a year ago.

“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’s website stated. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.”

The FAA’s website also noted that individuals with “severe” mental and physical disabilities are the most underrepresented group within the federal workforce.

“Because diversity is so critical, FAA actively supports and engages in a variety of associations, programs, coalitions, and initiatives to support and accommodate employees from diverse communities and backgrounds. Our people are our strength, and we take great care in investing in and valuing them as such,” the website stated.

The initiative is part of the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring plan, which claims “diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.”

The FAA’s website shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.

The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.

Obviously, there is no factual basis to support the claim that “diversity” enhances the safety or efficiency of travel — absolutely none. Common sense alone tells us that individuals with certain “severe intellectual disabilities” present a significant risk to the flying public. 

“The aviation industry has a responsibility for traveler safety just as the health care industry has a responsibility for patient safety. These responsibilities outweigh other factors when considering applicants to work in those fields. People with disabilities who can successfully complete the task should never face discrimination,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told Fox News Digital last year.  However, he noted that identity politics is “creating opportunities for so-called oppressed groups by lowering standards for entry into those fields and thereby endangering the safety of those which it’s designed to serve. Some endeavors simply do not lend themselves to identity politics.”

Conservatives were quick to criticize the policy.

“As someone who has been flying all over America — and sometimes the world — for decades, I've had to put my faith and trust in everyone involved in the safety of the aircraft and the journey,” PJ Media’s Stephen Kruiser wrote at the time. “The modern airline industry has, for the most part, earned that faith and trust. Now it seems as if it's trying to see how quickly that trust can be eroded.”

The answers to all your questions is no. If they are qualified, then fine hire them. But that would mean they were competent. If they aren't, then to get the "numbers" quota right you have to hire incompetent dwarves. You leftards live in a bubble when you think that when the Secret Service was looking to hit 30% DEI candidates that they were talking about file clerks? You think that Mayor Buttplug who couldn't fix North Bend pot holes was competent to run the Transportation Dept? When the CEO of United was promising to hire DEI pilots he was talking about flight attendants? If the FAA was dropping white job applications based solely on race, especially white males, they were interested in competence? Leftards lied and love to be lied to. You think proper handling of nuclear waste was Sam Brinton's priority? Or the dementia patient's?