Paul, anytime you use a metric other than competence to hire someone you run the risk of an incompetent candidate. By definition that is what DEI is, instead of focusing solely on competence we are using a DIFFERENT METRIC. It is obviously unsafe to allow any form of DEI in aviation, but it’s stupid to allow it anywhere else. People should be hired for their merit, not for a meaningless attributes like their “sex”, “gender identity”, or “race”. No one cares about that shit when they are in the back of your airplane, they care that are QUALIFIED. That should be the ONLY STANDARD, full stop. I saw DEI effect safety as a flight instructor all the time, as unqualified and inept candidates passed checkrides, likely because the examiner was afraid of the “race” or “feminism” card being pulled. If you think it’s not happening in the airlines, think again. Things change Paul, and in this case they have changed for the worse.
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