Thank you for your replies.
Here are a few thoughts in response:
1. We should follow Reagan. He didn’t become a commie and adopt collectivist techniques to defeat the Soviets. He followed the Gospel, I.e., Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.
2. Surrender, abdication, or joining Billy Kristol and other traitors across Freedom, Inc. is also not an option. It’s a nice strawman, but no way to secure freedom.
3. I have no doubt that Dem AGs and Garland are harassing private enterprises with ridiculous documentation demands, too. They’re wrong. That doesn’t make it right for Paxton to act like a socialist AG; see #1.
4. Bidet and his Administration get beat up (rightly so) for ignoring the border. Paxton should focus his energy on that beam in his eye vs this splinter.
5. If Boeing can trace their problem to a supplier, they should seek redress via the courts. That makes it a private sector matter.
6. What is the legitimate role of the Administrative State in product liability? In theory, it is to ensure no laws were broken. DEI, at this point, isn’t illegal. It may be caustic and ponderous, but so is Springsteen and he’s still hasn’t been banned.
7. Almost as an aside, some of the data for which Paxton is asking is very likely unavailable, and he knows it if he’s a competent lawyer. In particular, private sector firms don’t track the sexual orientation of their employees in general - in fact it may be illegal to demand it (it’s ok to ask and it’s ok for the employee to say GFY). National origin may not be in all firms’ systems as well.
8. The rush to condemn DEI for every problem or accident is as stupid as blaming guns for crime. Parenthetically, we also look stupid when wrong on DEI (see Silicon Valley Bank) just like the left does every time the blame a MAGA gun nut that turns out to be a mentally ill Democrat.
9. DEI is a symptom, not a cause, of THE main problem, which is collectivism. Look at Uvalde…the cops got off with barely a slap on the wrist. Educators who groom children are protected by the union and administrators. Back in the day, bad eggs would be flushed out and strong individuals would be championed. Today, is nobody’s fault…”it’s the system.” And I’ve seen PLENTY of f-ups who look as white as me in life. Indeed, Pelosi, Schumer, Bidet, are cases in point. No rsce holds a monopoly on dumb and incompetent.
Thanks for listening,
If the process has endangered airline passengers, then one looks to negligent hiring. If that is found to be true, then the persons who authorized the hiring of unqualified workers are directly in line for being sued. There might also be an issue of negligent retention. If workers have been unqualified to do the work they were hired for, but did sloppy work but weren't fired, then negligent retention becomes an issue also. And once again, people who should have fired unqualified workers are in line to be sued.
Paxton doesn't need to get into gender issues. But as a matter of curiosity, if Boeing was proud of its progress in DEI, why would it now try to hide its racial makeup percentages if it touted them before?
But to me, it once again boils down to a couple of questions - were standards lowered? And did no one try to reinstate higher standards once the problems were discovered?
The airlines are obligated to answer these questions. The lives of airline passengers have been shown to be jeopardized on several occasions, and Paxton, and others, have a right to ask those questions, and the Boeing has a duty to answer them truthfully.
I don’t disagree with you - but the adages, “Fight fire with fire” was coined for a reason - when one side ignores the law and turns it into a weapon, those who allow themselves to be restrained by the law will die by the so-called law.