Marz, let’s be real here, blaming DEI for this tragedy is a lazy scapegoat with no evidence to back it up. The FAA’s staffing crisis wasn’t caused by diversity programs but by years of budget cuts, retirements, and poor management. Pointing fingers at ‘skin color’ instead of actual hiring bottlenecks is a fear-driven narrative that’s designed to distract us from solving the real problem. DEI isn’t about putting unqualified people in jobs, it’s about finding talent that the old, exclusionary systems overlooked.
If anything, this outdated ‘merit’ excuse is a smokescreen to protect the same power structures that have caused stagnation in the first place. And this fear of ‘losing ground’ is nothing new. Just like Jim Crow laws emerged to keep white dominance intact after Reconstruction, today’s anti-DEI crusade is a reaction to a changing, diversifying nation. Politicians know this and are using that fear to score political points, just as they did back then. If we don’t recognize that, we’ll be stuck repeating the same cycles of discrimination and exclusion under a different name, and aviation, like many industries, will suffer the consequences