Re: Diversity hiring has gone out of control

On 2024-01-29, Biden diversity hires nuclear... <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2023, "Happy Trump Surrender Day!" <[email protected]>
> posted some news:[email protected]: 
>
>> 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 FAA’s 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.


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