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DIVERSITY: FAA Is Actively Recruiting People With 'Severe Intellectual' and Psychiatric Disabilities
Red State ^ | 5:56 PM on January 14, 2024 | Ward Clark

Posted on 01/14/2024 9:45:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

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. 

"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 states. "They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism."

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. 

This is what, back in my days in Uncle Sam's colors, we used to refer to as a "Charlie Foxtrot."


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The FAA wants to bring in people who are "under-represented," including, of all things, people with "severe intellectual disability" and "psychiatric disability." Of all the things they list, those two are the most concerning. At what, precisely, does the FAA plan to put these people to work doing? It's safe to assume that by "severe intellectual disability," one means at best a substandard IQ, if not an outright inability to function in any organized workplace; there's a reason these people are "under-represented" in the workplace, and it's because there is just so little we can safely have them do - especially in this industry, which involves, I remind you, loading a couple of hundred people in a jet-propelled aluminum can and propelling them through the air at 36,000 feet for a few hours.

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Even more disconcerting, though, is the perceived need to bring in those with a "psychiatric disability." Given the line of work I'm in, I get to read all manner of government-agency lunacy every day, so it takes a real whopper to faze me these days, but when I first read that, I honestly did a double-take - "Wait, what?" On second reading, though, yes, I had it right. The FAA - who I remind you, is responsible for ensuring safe air travel - is planning to ramp up hiring of those with "psychiatric disabilities." What kind of psychiatric disabilities? Sociopathy, I would posit, is a psychiatric disability, as is schizophrenia or "other psychotic disorders," bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive disorder. Surely the FAA isn't going to be hiring people with these kinds of disorders to do, well, anything the FAA needs done? 

Has our federal government gone absolutely bonkers? What in the world could the U.S. taxpayers, who after all are paying for all this, have to gain by the FAA taking this bats*** crazy action?

This latest effort by the FAA is downright unsettling, and whoever takes the seat at the Resolute Desk next January should look into dismantling this initiative, tout de suite.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: isthisthebee; midair
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Don't worry scro'! There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now." - Dr. Lexus (Idiocracy, 2006).

"Idiocracy" wasn't satire.

It is their plan.

41 posted on 01/15/2024 4:12:29 AM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
FAA today, NASA tomorrow:

"Houston, Apollo 13 here. We have a problem."

"MY NAME IS LARRY...MY NAME IS LARRY!"

"Houston...?"

Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvLikiVraHE

42 posted on 01/15/2024 4:18:23 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Has our federal government gone absolutely bonkers?

No, not crazy. Evil and nefarious.

43 posted on 01/15/2024 4:20:24 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They want to hire more of Obama’s tribe. The ghetto cannibals have an average IQ of 75 and are unemployable. This is how they can get a paycheck from Uncle Sugar before the Mexican cartels take over.


44 posted on 01/15/2024 4:27:06 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s the matter, no more cushy Gov’t. jobs to hand out to Liberal idiots???


45 posted on 01/15/2024 4:47:27 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“complete paralysis”

DIE.

Nuts.


46 posted on 01/15/2024 5:03:39 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: bgill
Turning into the movie Idiocracy before our eyes. "My wife was 'tarded but now she's a pilot."

Idiocracy - Dr. Lexus

47 posted on 01/15/2024 5:03:47 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve always said, if there’s one thing the FAA is missing, it’s insane, retarded dwarfs.


48 posted on 01/15/2024 5:43:12 AM PST by 762X51
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To: lee martell

Puts me in mind of the TSA recruiting commercials that Rush used to run.


49 posted on 01/15/2024 6:31:11 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hard to tell the difference in the policy shift since the idiots are already in charge.


50 posted on 01/15/2024 6:44:34 AM PST by txeagle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Morons and imbeciles?


51 posted on 01/15/2024 6:56:11 AM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Flight controller with severe depression: Well they're all gonna die anyway so why not now in a fiery plane crash.

Flight controller with anxiety disorder: Oh my God those planes are gonna crash. What should I do? They're gonna crash. What should I do. They're gonna... Oh they crashed.

52 posted on 01/15/2024 7:04:56 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: Nervous Tick
We are in the Post-MakesSense era.

👍

53 posted on 01/15/2024 7:25:37 AM PST by yelostar (Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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To: TermLimits4All

Considering he was smart enough to hack the administrative panel of the science lab portal, reset everyone’s passwords, and then get on the phone with the developer and show them how he did it - in the 4th grade - he is smart enough to do this.

Kid has been a straight A student for his entire high school career. He is in STEM courses and will be going to college for computer science. He wants to be a network engineer.

Asbergers kids are very smart and mission focused. They are just socially awkward. He would make a lousy salesperson.

But you hear disabled and immediately discount him. Sorry for you.


54 posted on 01/15/2024 7:55:14 AM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems

So the FAA is now hiring Democrats. I think I will travel by car.

55 posted on 01/15/2024 8:08:52 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: TheWriterTX

“Asbergers kids are very smart and mission focused. They are just socially awkward.

I have a couple of employees that have asbergers. One thing goes wrong and guess what, a freak out. Yea, I think I’ll pass.


56 posted on 01/15/2024 8:49:43 AM PST by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: golux; Phinneous; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; SJackson
DIVERSITY: FAA Is Actively Recruiting People With 'Severe Intellectual' and Psychiatric Disabilities

Proof that somebody has to be in charge!

57 posted on 01/15/2024 1:22:34 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A job so easy a Neanderthal could do it...


58 posted on 01/15/2024 8:00:28 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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