Die-versity in the airlines and med-schools: Um...

You likely won't be surprised to hear that flying big jets takes lots of skill.  So naturally the wokiez who push DEI are demanding that the airlines hire people they wouldn't otherwise hire, cuz...Die-versity, eh?  And the FAA is eager to enforce these orders.

Now:  Because all airlines are scared to cross the biden regime, all airline execs swoon over the alleged faabulous benefits of DEI.  And no airline execs gush more fawningly than United's.

Information is now emerging that a "hard landing" of a United 767 in Houston way back last July may have resulted from pilot error.  Every pilot has bounced one on a few times, and planes are designed to withstand a specified sink rate on landing without damage, even though it sure gets everyone's attention.

But this particular landing was reported to have done "significant damage" to the 767's airframe, putting it in a very different class from the usual hard landing.  The airlines are supposed to report damage, and those reports are usually public record.  But in this case, things are...unusually murky.

In a tweet a conservative activist claimed the pilot was a DEI hire who’d “failed multiple trainings” but been hired anyway because he or she had checked the right oppression boxes.

Knowing that anyone who criticizes any aspect of DIE-versity is often a target, the activist couched her claims as questions:  “Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was fired, then rehired [as a pilot trainee? Strikes me as very unlikely] through United’s DEI program?”

    “Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings including simulator training? Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?” she added.

On January 9 journalist and author Peachy Keenan tweeted "I'm getting [emails] from the pilot world confirming that things are bad."  Keenan claims the airlines have informal programs teaming “unfireable DEI problem children” with experienced pilots. As those older pilots retire and the diversity hires move up to captain, will they get better fast enough to prevent...problems?

It's not just pilots: On January 12 Stanley Goldfarb, MD, wrote of his recent experience with DEI as associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s med school.

Most college grads have heard of the MCAT--the admissions test for med-schools.  Goldfarb says Penn's medical school has started allowing ten students a year from historically black colleges or universities to enter its med school without bothering to take the MCAT.

(Note that Harvard, Yale and Stanford have stopped requiring the SAT test, since minorities were being admitted with scores hundreds of points below the minimum cutoff for whites and Asians.)

The MCAT has always been part of the screening process for med-school applicants.  The reasoning seems to be that a certain level of education is needed to understand all the topics MD's must master.  But apparently the DEI pushers have unilaterally junked that for black candidates.

Perhaps the logic of requiring applicants to take the MCAT was flawed.  But one thing is certain: Given the push NOT to fail designated minorities, what are the chances that any DEI-run university would ever remove a failing minority from its med-school?  Instead, unqualified students will be passed "to compensate for historic racism.”

The indicators are already lining up:  The university has created a project called "Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery" (PMAS) with the stated goal of “creating social justice-informed medical curricula that use race...to train the next generation of race-conscious physicians.”

A lofty goal, certainly.  But if those running the program use it to give MD degrees to shaky doctors...

All we can do is hope, because the wokiez have already committed to this path.  It's set in concrete, as it were.

The truth is that every corporation and institution has been forced to adopt DEI, and are threatened by the DEI mob if they don’t.

Threatening or targeting companies that don't kiss the ring is routine.  NBC News quotes DEI consultant Tiffany Brandreth: "There should be a boycott of corporations that disparage...DEI."  

Politicians love to push DEI because like all government mandates, DEI mandates win votes from those who benefit.  And if someone is qualified on merit, fine.  The open question is, as currently constituted, is that happening?

But don't worry, citizen:  commercial jets have two pilots for a reason, and as long as at least one was hired on merit, chances are everything will be fine.  That assurance drops a lot with MDs, but hey, that's what malpractice insurance is for, eh?  Besides, chances are neither you nor your family will be adversely affected.  So chill, deplorable.

Source.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/dei_airplane_crashes_and_bad_medicine_.html