Comment on DEI, more like DIED

• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • Cruel@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At least you admit being a racist. Good for you!

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      • Cruel@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If you learned that your new surgeon was hired strictly because she’s a white woman, is it racism to be skeptical of her qualifications?

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    • shane@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol. Found the dumbass loser.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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• jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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