How many fathers was he suggesting each home should have?
Comment on DEI, more like DIED
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Zink@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
For some it takes a village.
For some like Charlie it takes an orgy. Of exclusively middle aged dad bods.
Zink@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.
Conservative messaging 101 right there.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
Rooty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dude really had no redeeming qualities.
Cruel@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
This is a reasonable fear in a world where pilots are hired based on their status of being a minority. Is it not? That was the whole point, DEI practices enforce the ideal that minorities aren’t qualified.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 week ago
The ironic thing is that this anti-DEI government has some of the dumbest, unqualified people in key positions. Clearly they were hired based on anything but their ability to do the job they were hired to do.
Every accusation is a confession with these people.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
At least you admit being a racist. Good for you!
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
For those who stumble across this and are confused, this isn’t how DEI works.
The reason DEI policies exist is that without them white male bosses were just blindly hiring white males and not considering anybody else because of their racism and sexism (sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious). That meant pilots who weren’t as good, musicians who weren’t as good, bankers who weren’t as good, etc. Aside from this being a guaranteed jobs program for white makes, and a roadblock for everyone else, it also led to problems because when everybody came from the same background, they all had the same kinds of blind spots.
So, DEI policies came along to try to make sure that companies were actually hiring the best people, and not missing out because of entrenched racism and sexism. So, instead of having a concert violinist hand her resume to a committee and then perform for them on stage, the person performing on stage performs behind a screen and uses a number so their age, name, gender, and connections aren’t a factor, just the way they play.
So really, when you see yet another white male airline pilot who looks like he’s former air force, you should be saying to yourself “I sure hope this airline has a DEI policy, and they didn’t just hire yet another guy who was drinking buddies with one of their pilots when they were both in the air force together.”
shane@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
A simple DEI policy would be, for example, to remove the name from a resume before passing it over to the hiring manager for initial selection. That reduces bias against ethnic groups, religions, or genders.
This should in no way reduce the qualifications of the candidates. Quite the opposite.
NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is the type of misinformation that Kirk spread. This is why it’s good that he’s dead.
That’s not what DEI is at all, literally the exact opposite.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
How is this a hard concept? You still have to be a pilot, you just can’t have a policy - tacit or explicit - of only hiring white men.
Couldn’t you have gone with the idea that it’s “taking jobs from white men?” Then I could point out that there isn’t a limited pool of specific unemployed people you have to pick from, and that even if you give a job to a white man it’s still taking a job from a different white man?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lol. Found the dumbass loser.
Ghis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s not how DEI works.
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, without knowing context, you might think it’s someone admitting that we need gun control, but no, his point was that we shouldn’t care about the gun deaths so much…
Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I guess the guy who shot his throat won the debate about Charlies shooters being from fatherless homes theory
Rothe@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Ah yes, "the utopian one" like it is in the rest of the Western world.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
i was flabbergasted when i first heard americans have security & armed guards at schools. the closest to that any of the schools i went to had was cameras watching the doors and overweight PE teachers
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
We don’t have that either. Best we can do is cops with excessive cowardice.
Cruel@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Plenty of Western countries with lots of guns that don’t have the same issues with gun violence.
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Not nearly as many guns. No other country even has half as many guns per person as the US. But, even the ones that have a few guns (plus the ones that have almost no guns) have strictly enforced gun control laws, and treat gun ownership as a privilege not a right.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Almost, if I can believe this Wikipedia article Falkland Islands has just over half as much as the US.