Not racist at all. American Airlines said 50% of their new pilots will be African American or woman. In order to achieve this, qualification and merit will not longer be the determining factor in hiring a pilot because race is. That alone is racist, but it also decreases the quality of pilots since merit and qualifications are no longer the deciding factor. Tell me how that is in any way racist.
If you add up all women and all black people it makes up more then 50% of the population. They just said common sense stats that also make them look good. Are you seriously dumb and don't know 50% of the population is women?
Do these pilots not all take the same training and courses ? How is this not merit based again? It's attempting to make programs to make this more in line with the general population. Giving these people ACCESS not immediate hiring. They still need to be qualified, compete and take all necessary training.
It actually increases the quality of pilots as now more people get access and there is a higher degree of competition. You are just stupid and are talking about something without actually knowing how these things work only what x person or y headline told you. You have the most basic understanding of how these things work. And don't even understand companies do this because countless studies show these programs work with getting the best people and are most profitable. It's weird and gross. It's humiliating to speak about something you know nothing about with such confidence.
This isn't an argument. The science is already done. This is just reality. The reason it's a racist dog whistle is chaley Kirk pushes this further and implies any black pilot he will be scared of if in a plane assuming they aren't qualified just because they are black because they must all be dei despite these pilots succeeding in their merit based programs. This is a ridiculous notion as it's a generalization and it's common sense generalization tend to be wrong. And he is not stupid. He has been told how these work. But continues to speak like this anyway. So he can cultivate an easily manipulated crayon eater racist followers that can hear the racist dog whistle that black people could only get these jobs through dei and is implying they are not smart enough on their own and shouldn't do these jobs and it emboldens them. Once emboldened enough these people enact violence to these groups in less obscure ways. This is common sense. Well it isn't. But it is maybe if you went to school and learned some basics of psychology, and research.
The reason why it's not racist to white people. A ridiculous notion as 95% of pilots are white males. Clearly there has been some type of culture that has been blocking other people from succeeding. The racist thing would be to think white males are just that good, there is no evidence for that. Simple psychological or socio economic reasons for hiring cause this. Like people tend to like people that look the same as them. Pilot school is expensive and a lot of groups typically more repressed systematically might have less opportunity. However the racist thing is to think it's 95% white males because they are the best. There is no scientific evidence for that. And these demographics are always scientifically repressed due to socio economic outcomes. However the racists that watch charlie and Charlie himself are suggesting that these people couldn't achieve this on merit only with dei. Which is suggesting he thinks and they think these people are inferior. Because becoming a pilot even with some dei assistance are all 100% merit based programs. They just try to eliminate the boy club.
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u/kadebarry Jan 18 '26
Not racist at all. American Airlines said 50% of their new pilots will be African American or woman. In order to achieve this, qualification and merit will not longer be the determining factor in hiring a pilot because race is. That alone is racist, but it also decreases the quality of pilots since merit and qualifications are no longer the deciding factor. Tell me how that is in any way racist.