Comedian Rob Schneider called out United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby in a recent X post, accusing the CEO of pushing diversity in his company at the expense of safety.
Simple. If you’re hiring based on diversity, you aren’t hiring based on merit. The two are incompatible. And I, for one, would rather fly an airline where merit decides the pilot, not race
Peepin my dude, that is not what he said. He said that you can’t select for both. That doesn’t strictly mean that a qualified queer black woman doesn’t exist, it means that you can’t hire for diversity and for merit at the same time.
Because they are. If you’re prioritizing one metric of judgement, you’re inherently putting at least some metrics below it. And unless you’re of the stance that there’s a big stack of 100% identical in every way other than diversity qualities, those people are all going to have different levels of actually relevant qualifications.
If you’re making selections based on diversity, you’re fundamentally not focusing on hiring the best of the best. And for safety critical positions like pilots, I would much rather have the focus be 100% on quality.
The best is the best, regardless of whatever bs diversity qualities. You’ll get them without having to specifically look for shit like race and sex. Looking for those instead means you’re no longer looking for the best, you’re looking for whoever meets minimum standards and is also an acceptable race
Because the moment you’re preferring race, you’re fundamentally not preferring something else, and if you ask me, race is pretty much the absolute bottom of the list of things to judge people on.
Simple. If you’re hiring based on diversity, you aren’t hiring based on merit. The two are incompatible. And I, for one, would rather fly an airline where merit decides the pilot, not race
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Peepin my dude, that is not what he said. He said that you can’t select for both. That doesn’t strictly mean that a qualified queer black woman doesn’t exist, it means that you can’t hire for diversity and for merit at the same time.
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Because they are. If you’re prioritizing one metric of judgement, you’re inherently putting at least some metrics below it. And unless you’re of the stance that there’s a big stack of 100% identical in every way other than diversity qualities, those people are all going to have different levels of actually relevant qualifications.
That’s just a straw man
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If you’re making selections based on diversity, you’re fundamentally not focusing on hiring the best of the best. And for safety critical positions like pilots, I would much rather have the focus be 100% on quality.
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The best is the best, regardless of whatever bs diversity qualities. You’ll get them without having to specifically look for shit like race and sex. Looking for those instead means you’re no longer looking for the best, you’re looking for whoever meets minimum standards and is also an acceptable race
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Because the moment you’re preferring race, you’re fundamentally not preferring something else, and if you ask me, race is pretty much the absolute bottom of the list of things to judge people on.
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Where did he say “every woman and person of color hired based on diversity must not be qualified to do the job otherwise”?
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