“Affirmative action” isn’t just morally wrong. It can be downright dangerous.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Terrific.
Obama’s goal was to destroy America. He left no stone unturned in his quest to do so. And if Hilary had followed him immediately as president, she would have finished the job.
Idiocracy. Just substitute President Obama for President Camacho.
Diversity policies are dangerous.
I saw that on Tucker earlier. Chilling.
Because the best guy to work a line of air carrier inbounds on a zero-zero fog bound approach to the CAT IIIA SFO 28R runway is a slow witted high school dropout who just happens to be Not-A-Caucasian.
Yessirree, should do real well when the traffic starts stackin’ up and some Air Canada guy gets a bit behind the curve and has to fly the missed....’cuz he’s lined up on the wrong set of lights.
I believe this is old news.
I'm the middle guy of three generations of pilots, and I've been following this for a couple of years. The aviation community supports the air traffic control system as far as I can tell.
I am open to contending views.
My wife went to the FAA’s entry school for controllers in the ‘80s. 110 started; by the end (3 months later) 60 had washed out. After that the real grind began - checking out locally.
The best of the best went to the enroute (ARTC) centers or radar approach (RAPCON) in the big cities - Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, etc. A lot of them didn’t make it through and ended up in small towers or in the Flight Service Stations.
If they’re going to play the “equality of outcome” game the standards will drop. I suspect, however, that the FAA will not allow that to happen and just end up hiring a lot of “no hitters” or low level paper pushers with a string of failures in their personnel files.
She made it at an enroute center, BTW, got fully checked out, then ended up resigning when recalled by her airline. She retired as a -747 captain on international routes.
It’s not just air traffic that is threatened by AA.
Diversity Policies are Corrupting the Sciences.
“... The use of a school’s immediate surroundings as a demographic benchmark for its faculty is a significant escalation of the war between the diversicrats and academic standards.
Escalation is the right word. It’s as if the official bodies that monitor scientific research are searching for mechanisms that will ramp up the pressure on individuals and institutions to include underrepresented minorities in their work in one way or another.
These tactics are backed by funders who explicitly set aside money for “gender- and race-exclusive science training.” University departments and schools, too, are creating their own diversity enforcers.” Schools are adjusting the way they teach and evaluate minority students and job candidates, for instance, developing “culturally sensitive pedagogies” that downplay knowledge and skills and upgrade, in the words of one program, awareness of the “racialized and gendered construct of scientific brilliance.”
The results are already showing. From 2013 to 2016, MacDonald notes, “medical schools nationally admitted 57 percent of black applicants with a low MCAT of 24 to 26, but only 8 percent of whites and 6 percent of Asians with those same low scores.” Allegations of racism, sexism, microaggression, and bias continue, despite nearly everyone in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) complying with diversity ambitions. As one practitioner quoted by MacDonald puts it:
The sheer effort that is expended in complete good faith at the graduate, post-graduate, and faculty level chasing after a declining population of minority applicants is astonishing. URMs [underrerpesented minorities] are encouraged to apply, indeed begged to apply, to medical school and post-graduate medical training programs. Everyone at this level is trying incredibly hard to be generous, fair, forgiving, thoughtful, kind, and encouraging to these applicants.
This is the general circumstance that coincides with the ceaseless talk of systemic and individual discrimination. The insertion of diversity criteria into the practice of science relies upon presumptions of bias, but one would have to search far and wide to find any scientists who wish to keep women, African Americans, and Hispanics out of their classrooms, departments, and research projects.”
Link: https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/05/30/how-threats-of-bias-are-corrupting-the-sciences/
Oh, I don’t like the sound of this.
Hopefully, PDJT can undo this Hussein rule.
Years ago blacks accused white educators of race norming IQ tests. It was NOT true... but all test questions were checked to make sure they 'race neutral'..
What's disgusting here is that blacks are doing this INTENTIONALLY...giving themselves an unfair advantage over every other racial group in the United States. That's against the law.
This choice reflects the shameful underbelly of black culture... pity-party based criminality.
The FAA should be sued for racism... intentionally rigging the system against Asians, whites, Indians, Europeans... etc etc etc. Take it to the Supreme Court... destroy this twisted abomination and take a look at every other Federal Agency to see if this filth has invaded other federal programs.
All questions must be race neutral... Period.
This sounds worse than it actually is.
They WILL NOT certify.
Impossible
There is a certain standard required to certify and become an FPL(Full Performance Level) ATC.
Sure they might get more points initially but they will be weeded out.
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