Posted on 04/08/2021 8:48:27 AM PDT by rickmichaels
What's the first thing you think of when you get on a plane?
Safety, right?
I mean, there are lots of other things you might think of as you take your seat – the leg room, the food menu, whether the WiFi works, how unspeakably annoying the stranger sitting next to you might turn out to be, or even worse, if the cabin steward will be one of those ghastly 'comedian' types cracking jokes and dancing their way through the safety routine?
But ultimately, the one constant thought process most of us when we board an aircraft that's going to fly very fast very high up in the air is a simple one: 'Please get me to my destination in one piece.'
And frankly, I don't care who makes this happen in the cockpit, so long as they are extremely well trained, experienced and competent pilots who know exactly what they're doing.
I certainly don't care about a pilot's gender or skin color.
What possible impact does that have on their ability to fly a plane safely?
All that matters in a pilot is their skill.
But United Airlines, one of America's biggest airlines, yesterday announced a new recruitment strategy indicating that gender and skin color should very much now be a determining factor in who flies their planes.
'Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day,' read the statement. 'That's why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color.'
To which my response is: why?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Next UA will hire comatose pilots.
It’s glaringly obvious that we need more Muslim Supremacists in the cabin. Y’know, quotas and all that.
Expect a lot of crashes. DIEversity kills!
Affirmative Action
A future season of air disaster investigations in the making.
Members of the One Eyed Pilots Association are underrepresented in the ranks of UA pilots. Change now!! And also, dyslexics of the world untie!!
Could somebody please tell me how on earth requiring an ID to vote is racist?
Oh, never mind. I just remembered that for these people EVERYTHING is racist!
I should point out that this is already happening with ATC, it won’t turn out well
Oops! Wrong thread. Sorry.
"If some people had wings and others didn't, and the government wanted to enforce "fairness," soon no one would have wings. Because wings cannot be redistributed, they can only be broken. Likewise, a government edict cannot make people smarter or more capable, but it can impede the growth of those with the potential. Wouldn't it be fair if, in the name of equality, we scar the beautiful, cripple the athletes, lobotomize the scientists, blind the artists, and sever the hands of the musicians? Why not?"
- Oleg Atbashian, Shakedown Socialism
Wonder when Russia’s and China’s state-run airlines are going to follow suit? /s
morgan entirely blows up any of his credibility with this statement.
No explanation on how this will suppress legitimate voting.
A pox on him.
Chimps are next.
The woke folks are just waking up to the specieist hegemony!
How about paraplegics? Don’t they deserve a chance?
Amputees? This is limb discrimination!!
A pilot needs to be intelligent, able to make quick decisions in a crisis, and remain calm when facing danger.
If they throw out looking for those qualities when trying to get nice diversity numbers, I’m not flying their airline.
NTSB needs a new item for their crash cause checklist:
“Affirmative Action pilot error”
Blind pilots. Good one.
How about drug-addicted pilots?
Maybe United Airlines will allow Demonicrats to become pilots. After all, why should piloting a commercial airplane be restricted to those who are sane?
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