Collin Rugg on X - "DEI activist is allegedly caught promising to share exam answers with minority air traffic controller candidates in audio obtained by the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail says they now have audio of Shelton Snow promising to give test answers for an aviation entry exam. "There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of and I am going to send that to you via email," he could be heard saying, in audio allegedly from 2014. "I am about 99.99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question." The scandal went viral years ago however the audio proof appears to be new. Snow was an air traffic operations supervisor based out of New York, as reported by the outlet. The Daily Mail reports that the information was given to black people, women, and other minorities but kept from whites to "minimize competition." A former National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE) member says he knows multiple people who cheated and are "controlling planes as we speak.""
Arthur MacWaters on X - "If you want to argue "DEI doesn't mean lower outcomes", fine, but you have to prove that the level of merit is the same when DEI practices are applied. This is the opposite "cheat on the test" wouldn't be necessary if you believed everyone was equal in merit. Let diversity arise out of merit. It happens naturally."
The cope is going to be that there's discrimination against those candidates, who are actually qualified, so this is needed to level the playing field
We are still told that ending DEI is what led to plane crashes
‘DEI cost me a job in aviation – a crash was inevitable’: whistleblower after Washington accident - "An aspiring air traffic controller who claimed he was denied a job because of diversity targets said the aviation agency’s obsession with inclusion made an accident likely to happen. Andrew Brigida, 35, scored 100 per cent in his training exam but alleged that he was denied a position in an air traffic control tower because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recruitment process favoured diverse candidates. He is part of a class action lawsuit filed against the federal agency. Speaking after the Washington air disaster, in which 67 people were killed, Mr Brigida claimed that years of diversity hiring meant it was only a matter of time before an accident happened. “You want to hire the best and the brightest for this kind of job because it is a very stressful job and it can take a toll on you, age you prematurely,” he told The Telegraph. “You want to make sure that the people that are doing it are the best.”... one of the air traffic controllers had left their post early on Wednesday evening when a passenger plane and a military helicopter collided above Washington. At the time of the collision, there was one controller managing traffic for both helicopters and planes – a job normally handled by two people – according to The New York Times. The FAA described staffing levels as “not normal for the time of day and the volume of traffic”... Under the Obama administration, the regulator replaced a skills-based test with a biographical questionnaire to attract more diverse applicants. When Mr Brigida tried again to become an air traffic controller under the new tests, he said he failed the biographical questionnaire because he “didn’t fit the preferred ethnic profile”... Mr Brigida said previous administrations were to blame for the air traffic control staffing crisis because they “got too comfortable because there has not been an incident in a long time”. He added: “There have been plenty of stories of near miss events that have been the cause of staffing issues. It’s surprising that it’s gone on this long without being properly recognised by the government.” Asked whether years of diversity hiring meant an accident was waiting to happen, Mr Brigida, who now works in the FAA as a programme manager said: “Yes, that’s kind of accurate.”... He said he hoped Mr Trump would now “immediately” to fix the staffing crisis, saying: “He obviously sees the issue at hand, and if he didn’t I’m sure people that work in the Department of Transportation and the FAA informed him that there is an issue with staffing and air traffic control.” In November 2019, attorneys for Mountain States Legal Foundation sought class action status in a lawsuit for more than 2,500 aspiring air traffic controllers who they said were harmed by the FAA’s hiring policies. They argued that the Obama administration endangered public safety by prioritising racial politics and owes compensation for the “grave injustice”. The FAA and the US transport department are contesting the lawsuit. With the case expected to go to court early next year with 900 claimants, Will Trachman, the lead counsel, said Joe Biden had tried to sweep the diversity scandal “under the rug”. “This started under Obama, but it’s the Biden administration that tried to sweep it under the rug and assert attorney-client privilege over 14,000 documents and has been trying to oppose and dismiss this case,” said Mr Trachman. “It’s one thing to do it but the Biden administration refused to recognise the error of the FAA’s ways and so they dug in and, in fact, tried to go bigger on diversity measures.”... Quoting DEI policy, he said that the FAA was “actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions”."
Is DEI risking air traffic control safety? - "Air traffic controllers are badly understaffed and overworked. As of June, 77% of ATC centres are understaffed, and it’s common for controllers to have mandatory overtime, 10-hour shifts and 6-day workweeks. Controllers are manning multiple frequencies at once and often don’t have the bandwidth to monitor runways as effectively as one would hope. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) blames the problem on the six-month closure of its academy in 2020 and a two-year pause in on-the-job trainings. But the crisis appears to have emerged about a decade into an Obama-era push to diversify the industry. Under the Obama administration, the FAA scrapped its hiring process based on aptitude test scores and training in 2013 and replaced it with one that considered applicants’ biographies, resulting in an ongoing class action lawsuit on behalf of about 1,000 applicants who were passed over under the new regime. The biographical component gave an advantage to applicants who had been unemployed for the past three years, among other traits the FAA believed would result in more opportunities for racial diversity. The classes admitted under the system of racial preference are still occupying air traffic control jobs. From 2011 to 2017 the FAA reported an 83% rise in runway incursions — “incidents involving unauthorised aircraft, vehicles, or people on a runway”. Near-misses on runways have also become commonplace. There were at least 46 near-collisions on airplane runways in July 2023 alone; in some cases pilots steered clear of crashing into other planes with only seconds to spare... An FAA spokesperson told UnHerd that the agency keeps “extremely conservative standards” for avoiding aircraft collisions through air traffic control, with the goal of having zero close calls, but refused to answer questions about the agency’s use of racial metrics in hiring practices; she told me I would have to file a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain this information."
Meme - The Other 98%: "America two weeks without wokeness and DEI:"
"No survivors expected after air ambulance carrying 6 crashes in Philadelphia; 1 victim on ground killed"
"No survivors expected after plane collides with helicopter over Potomac River"
"Japan Airlines plane strikes parked Delta jet at Seattle airport in 'scary' moment"
Jay Hubbard: "Nice lie, but turns out air traffic controllers were exempt from Trump's downsizing, and the FAA had a 3,000 person shortage through Biden's entire tenure."
EDITORIAL: FAA turned away qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race - "A class-action lawsuit by the Mountain States Legal Foundation has amassed a trove of documents shedding new light on an Obama-era Federal Aviation Administration initiative that rejected prospective air traffic controllers based solely on their race. A 2013 FAA document, “Controller Hiring by the Numbers,” raised the issue in stark terms, asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?” When failure is measured in human blood, the answer should have been none... Vigilance is waning because the nation’s air traffic control towers are woefully understaffed. The people responsible for keeping planes from smashing into one another are tired after working long, mandatory overtime shifts to make up for the lack of controllers. Contributing to the shortage, the FAA temporarily put the brakes on hiring in 2012 so it could replace race-blind hiring rules with a “Biographical Assessment” stratagem designed to hire more minorities... The questionnaire sought irrelevant information such as the “college subject in which I received my lowest grade.” Those answering “history/political science” received 15 points. Playing four or more sports in high school was worth 5 points. By contrast, holding a pilot’s license — a major advantage for a controller — was worth only 2 points. And having valuable experience as an air traffic controller in the military was worth no points at all. Andrew Brigida became lead plaintiff in the lawsuit after his application was turned down despite his achieving a perfect, 100% score on the AT-SAT. Mr. Brigida’s attorneys claim there was a method to the madness. Race-hustling activist groups conspired with FAA officials to create the quiz so they could let their members in on a secret: Anyone could pass the Biographical Assessment by answering A to all but one of the questions. More than 3,000 top-performing, motivated applicants lost out because they weren’t members of this ethnic club. After Congress forced the FAA to drop the quiz in 2018, many former applicants reapplied and have since become controllers. Their careers were set back several years for no good reason."
Ending DEI is literally killing people
Primary school scraps Easter service to 'respect' other religions - "A primary school has scrapped its annual Easter celebration and service in order to “respect diverse religious beliefs”. The announcement has been criticised in online comments, with one suggesting that Christmas celebrations will be cancelled next. Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hants, sent a letter to parents and carers informing them that neither their Easter Bonnet Parade nor their Easter Service would be held this year. Stephanie Mander, the school’s headteacher who wrote the letter, explained that this was because of the state school’s “respect for diversity”. She said: “By not holding specific religious celebrations, we aim to create a more inclusive atmosphere that honours and respects the beliefs of all our children and their families.”... She added that the school planned to celebrate Refugee Week in June. The school’s website states: “Throughout the school year important celebrations in the lives of our children and school community are marked and celebrated together. “These include Eid, Diwali, Christmas and Easter."
Diversity just leads to generic mush
Caldron Pool on X - ""Australians don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community..." When did Australians choose to trade their freedom for multiculturalism?"
i/o on X - "Want to "hold together multiculturalism"? Here's the recipe:
Install censorship on social media
Create and enforce narratives explaining the significant and persistent differences in outcomes between groups that rely almost entirely on moral claims rather than the best data, and align all important opinion-shaping institutions against more empirically-robust counter-narratives
Create laws that fine and imprison people for expressing dissenting (although often popular) views on immigration, religion and race
Make crime, welfare and academic performance data on immigrants and other "marginalized" groups unavailable, difficult to get ahold of, or too socially or legally costly to publish
Bury the data and research on differences in intelligence between groups and cancel those who disseminate it, while withholding grant money and data from scientists seeking to investigate the subject
Advance the interests of non-majority groups ahead of those of the majority group, and create structures and systems that provide preferential treatment of those minority groups, in order to reduce differences in outcomes and ensure social stability
Relentlessly sell everyone on the idea that a multicultural society is a strength despite overwhelming evidence showing that it is both a strength and a weakness, with some groups showing themselves to be persistent social and fiscal net liabilities and others the opposite"
Real News Éire on X - "Conor McGregor stated yesterday Ireland is losing its Irishness. Here is a video a st Patrick’s day parade in Galway’s. Not an Irish person in it. The establishment and left can’t refute these statements."
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "The National Science Foundation is spending $1.5 million on "Black Feminist Epistemologies: Building a Sisterhood in Computing." This is not science, it's left-wing racialism—and all of it must be defunded."
Exclusive | NYC bias suit: Black, Hispanic teachers and ex-teachers rich - " Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased. It’s the largest legal payout in city history. As of Friday, 225 people who failed the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test used for teacher licensing from 1994 to 2014 had already been notified they’re getting settlements of at least $1 million, according to an analysis of Manhattan federal court records. Court rulings found the exam violated civil-rights laws, allowing far more white candidates to pass... “It’s a struggle to explain how New York City could spend $38,000 a year per kid with such a poor return, but decisions like this really help people understand where all that money’s going,” said Ken Girardin, a fellow and labor specialist for the conservative government watchdog group Empire Center for Public Policy... Grim said he’s in disbelief but the money can’t come fast enough because he’s racked up serious debt on his Queens home and credit cards. He couldn’t recite examples of why the test was biased... One Brooklyn principal said the city was “crazy” to settle the case. “The standards are the standards,” he said. “It shouldn’t be based on what would be easy for blacks or whites. To hire people who are not qualified and change the requirements because a certain group didn‘t pass the test is bulls–t.”... More than 90% of white test-takers passed the 80-question multiple-choice and essay Liberal Arts and Sciences Test between March 1993 and June 1995 — one version of which had questions such as asking teachers to explain the meaning of a painting by pop artist Andy Warhol. But black applicants on average scored passing grades only 53% of the time, and Latinos had an even lower passing rate, just 50%, according to the lawsuit."
Richard Hanania on X - "Biggest payment is to a man named Herman Grim. He gets $2,055,383. That's all the money he would have earned as a teacher in back pay, plus interest, and a little extra on top for the racism he suffered by having to take a test showing he could read well enough to teach kids."
It is racist to require teachers
Maryland State Police to relax testing standards following DOJ discrimination probe, $2.75 million settlement - "He said state police will be “relaxing the standards” for physical tests — mainly, removing the timing requirements within a test involving push-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5-mile run. Court documents described the existing requirements as 18 push-ups in one minute, 27 sit-ups in one minute, running the 1.5 miles in 15 minutes and 20 seconds, pulling a trigger 10 times with each hand and reaching about 1.5 inches beyond the applicant’s shoes while seated. The pass-rate for women has been less than 80% of the pass-rate for men, according to court documents."
When more minorities die due to unfit police officers, this will be the fault of racism
Meme - 🏛 Aristophanes 🏛 @Aristos_Revenge: "I was at a kids haircut place getting my son a haircut today, they have a TV on Disney in there. Some show is on about a classroom of kids, they've got a black boy and girl, some mixed girl, a Hispanic boy, and a white girl with blonde hair. The absent of white boys in media, especially of white boys who aren't playing "the nerd" or subordinate to a girl protagonist, really stands out to me. Actions like that and more importantly, the ideology encouraging them, qualify as "what they did to us" They let lib white women be the "representation" of white people because it's about marginalizing straight white men specifically."
captive dreamer @siegfriedmuell: "As Democrats start to see the massive backlash they've created, the retcon comes in: "Akshually we didn't go all in on hating White men, firing you from your job for not playing along with my sex fetish, throwing open the borders, locking you in your house for a year...""
Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil: ""I'll never forget what they did to us," and it's like, they got yelled at on social media for saying slurs. Their favorite video game franchise got a female protagonist for one installment. They had an annoying female HR rep. They're burning down the country over that"
kache @yacineMTB: "never forget what these people did to us. what they still *want* to do to us. we can't live with them anymore"
Of course, the BLM riots were not burning down the country, because they pushed the left wing agenda
Canadian researchers are being asked politically charged questions when trying to secure U.S. grants
Weird how the media didn't kick up a fuss when politically charged questions were asked in the past, like diversity statements being compulsory. The cope is that DEI is good so being pro-DEI is just being a decent human being, but being anti-DEI is being political for no reason. Ditto for swearing allegiance to gender ideology or climate change hysteria
Western Voice Actor SungWon 'ProZD' Cho Unhappy Reaping What He Sowed, Complains That Industry Is Now Segregating Roles By Race - "In yet another instance of identity politicians being scorned by the very ideology they promote, after having himself championed such ‘authentic casting’ practices, English-language voice actor SungWon ‘ProZD’ Cho has now found himself offended by the Western entertainment industry’s turn towards racially segregating their available roles. Cho, otherwise known by his online handle ‘ProZD’ as well as for performing in such notable roles as One Piece‘s Nekomamushi and God of War Ragnarök‘s Ratatoskr, expressed his frustrations towards this rising trend via a now-deleted Twitter thread originally shared to his personal account on October 23rd. Beginning his thoughts, Cho recalled, “I got an audition for [Prominent Cartoon] where I was sent just the Asian character. Looking through the rest, I told my agent ‘Hey, I’m happy to read for this, but can I…read for some of these others?’, to which I was tol,d ‘All of those characters are drawn as White, so no’.”... Turning to a different production, the voice actor further noted, “This is not new, for another show recently with a large cast of characters, I was only sent the audition sides for the character who…exclusively speaks Mandarian.” “I don’t speak Mandarian,” said Cho. “It’s demoralizing and as much as I love voiceover, the future looks bleaker every day.”... Unfortunately for Cho, while he may finally be seeing the very obvious downsides to making every single topic of discussion in life about race, as noted above, he was not an unwilling participant in the industry’s adoption of its current casting philosophy. Asked during a May 2nd appearance on film critic Korey Coleman’s Double Toasted Interviews podcast if he felt “like more opportunities would be open to you if you were, you know, a white male?”, the Korean voice actor affirmed, “I definitely would have more opportunities if I were white, for sure, there’s no doubt about that, but I think there have been changes in a positive way.” “And not just for, you know, Asians, but for all different races, different genders,” he continued. “There have been steps and it has been improving. I mean, even comparing now to like, let’s say 10 or you know five years ago, it’s definitely changed.” “Like I think studios are much more aware of ‘Hey, we should, you know, cast authentically,’ Cho then opined to his host. “So, there have been some good steps, but we still have a long way to go and I’m just hoping that, as time goes on, more and more doors will open for you know, diverse talent.” As to Cho’s complaint about various Asian ethniticites being lumped into one general casting group, while it is admittedly a tone-deaf move by studios, it is also an unfortunate result of the industry’s obsession with race. With many productions, particularly anime that take place in fictional settings, characters are often depicted with non-white and non-black skin tones. However, given that these settings feature no real-world analogues, casting directors are left to try and ‘authentically’ cast such roles based on what little information is available to them, with often amounts to little more than ‘they are vaguely brown skinned.’ As such, with this middling-skin-tone range ruling out explicitly white and black actors, casting directors have no choice but to open up a given role of ‘vaguely brown character’ to actors who can themselves best be described as ‘vaguely brown’. Is it a great system? Absolutely not. In fact, as Cho has discovered, it’s inherently racist. But unfortunately, it’s the one that many in the industry have fought for, and thus the one we are all currently forced to reckon with."
Of course, left wingers mean that white people are not allowed to play non-white people. Everyone else is allowed to play white people
Meme - Phil Labonte @philthatremains: "why are the legs so jacked if she can't walk?"
memeslich dnd memes: "accepting the existence of magic ina fantasy setting should not be easier than accepting the existence of disabled people in a fantasy setting *muscular woman in wheelchair*"
Meme juno (Girlfucker) @DewEnjoyer: "It does bring me immense joy that adding queer/black characters to games absolutely ruins your experience, I want every moment of a bigot's life to be miserable - all the hate you bring on us I hope it comes back at you threefold"
Sensei of the present @SenseiAnother: "This lost at the ballot box"
juno (Girlfucker) @DewEnjoyer: "How are those egg prices treating you"
Sensei of the present @SenseiAnother: "I eat 12 eggs a day whole watching streams of ICE raids"
When they admit they do it to piss people off. Diversity is at least partly driven by spite
Meme - John D. Cook @JohnDCook: "Harvard is denying admission to students with perfect SAT scores and AP calculus credit, while also admitting students who need remedial math."
"The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard's Director of Introductory Math Brendan A. Kelly. The course, titled Math MAs, will run alongside two established math courses - Math MA and MB - with an expanded five-day schedule. Kelly said that students in MAg will meet with "one of two instructors all five days" with "a variety of different activities" on Tuesdays and Thursdays."
Canadian Forces need to recruit warriors, not DEI hires: retired major - "“For 20-30 years, we didn’t get the job because we were women and now we’re getting it just because we’re women. This is not progress,” bemoans Barbara when I ask about how CAF recruitment of females is going. In 2016, shortly after Justin Trudeau’s election as prime minister, then Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance set a target to increase the percentage of women in the CAF from 15 per cent to at least 25 per cent by 2026. The target is proving difficult to reach, Barbara reports; today, roughly 17 per cent of new recruits are women. Confounding these efforts, recruiting more broadly isn’t going well; the CAF is currently short 16,500 personnel. “If I knew nothing about Canada’s military,” Barbara reflects, “except what I see on legacy media, and I had an 18-year-old daughter, I’d say, ‘Stay away, they’re all sexual predators, it’s racist, it’s white supremacist.’” The image of Canada’s military, portrayed by media and reinforced by the government, Barbara bluntly asserts, is not inviting for new recruits. “This particular government is no friend of the military. The whole DEI, radical progressive movement is forced on it,” Barbara laments. “And what dismays me,” she continues, “is that it seems like a lot of our senior leaders … many of them are women now, have embraced this.”... Gen. Jennie Carignan was named Canada’s first female Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)... “I have great faith in Jenny,” Barbara says, her tone now serious. “But realistically,” she asks, “was Trudeau gonna choose anybody but a woman for that job? He’s the biggest fake feminist that I’ve ever known. “My hope is that one of the first moves she (Carignan) makes as CDS is to close the culture department,” Barbara says. “Just close it.” It’s not unthinkable: other organizations are winding down overwrought DEI (diversity-equity-inclusion) bureaucracies. And in the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump appears to be acting on his threat to purge the American military of “woke” leaders; he’s picked Pete Hegseth as his secretary of defence (a Fox News commentator and veteran who questions the role of women in combat) and Trump’s transition team is reportedly contemplating a “warrior board” to fast-track the removal of “unfit” generals and admirals. Barbara’s not suggesting cultural training isn’t essential; the military has been dealing with sexual harassment and racism prevention for decades, she reports. In the early ’90s, there was a training program called SHARP. Then Operation Honour, to protect the people you worked with, she explains, “whether it was a young guy being bullied or a woman or a BIPOC.” There was bystander training. And then came the #MeToo movement, with three fatal flaws, Barbara contends. The first flaw: “The movement removed burden of proof; you could just make an accusation, end somebody’s career, and walk away.” The second flaw: “This idea that every time you approach a male colleague, he’s a predator … I shudder to think what that’s done to relationships.” The third flaw: “Suddenly, women are weak again.” Barbara has been accused of victim shaming, by keyboard warriors and journalists. “But I stand by my words,” she adds, her voice quiet and resolute. “You don’t want a warrior culture in the military?” she posits. “We need that culture, we need to recruit to that … and we have to go back to meritocracy.” We can’t keep pushing our warriors — “whether they be men, women, black, white, whatever” — to the back of the line, Barbara pleads. And, she continues, “we need a government that’s going to say, wearing that flag on your sleeve is the most wonderful thing you can do … because the world’s a really scary place right now.”... “When I joined (the military), there were 12 per cent women and a whole load of trades had just opened up to us,” Barbara reflects. “And we’ve made it to about 17 per cent.” In militaries the world over, the percentage of females serving is roughly the same and yet, she shrugs, we have a 25 per cent quota in Canada. The CAF has focused its recruiting on this target, Barbara rails, “and then we added all of the DEI, tiny little minority special interest groups to that quota. And now we spend money making a third bathroom or putting sanitary napkins in the men’s room and stuff, but we’re still buying our own helmets.”
Time to try even harder to recruit women and to be even more trans-inclusive to fill personnel shortages!
Steve McGuire on X - "A student at Amherst College wrote a critique of DEI for the student newspaper. He was subjected to online harassment, including a death threat, and was reported to the Title IX office. One of his peers wrote that “any white male who is not gay or trans is poison.”"
Ohio newspaper edits black state lawmaker who sponsored anti-DEI bill out of photo of law signing - "An Ohio newspaper has been accused of cropping out a black Republican state lawmaker from a group photo that had been taken during the signing of a bill to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the state's public colleges and universities. Rep. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania Township) sponsored the House version of SB1, the Enact Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine last month. Williams had posed for a photo alongside his colleagues, all of whom were white, during the bill's signing. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has been accused of deliberately cropping Rep. Williams out of the image in its report, sparking significant outrage. Williams, who made history as the first black Republican elected to the Ohio House, has said the publication pushed "propaganda" to fit a false narrative and demanded the outlet issue a correction and public apology... The Cleveland Plain Dealer had featured the edited image along with unfavorable reporting on the state's decision to eliminate DEI programs, a decision defined by lawmakers as racial discrimination and "deliberate media bias.""
