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Old 04-07-2021 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by GA2Jets
Y'all are making me nuts about this. They are proposing more outreach programs to achieve diversity. As in, encouraging more people to do the jobs, meeting women and people of color who are pilots. You're gonna tell me promoting things like field trips, discovery flights and cockpit tours etc are too woke??

Never ONE TIME has anyone suggested that we should simply waive the performance requirements for being a pilot.
We’ve been promoting things like that for decades now. This isn’t that. This is putting up a barrier to entry into the training program to applicants who don’t meet HR’s preferred skin color/genital makeup. And it may be a hard concept to grasp for many of the social justice warriors out there, but there is a HUGE difference between qualified (e.g. meeting the minimum requirements) and being the most-qualified. In order to meet the numbers they’re proposing, there will have to be sacrifices made in that regard. If It is for entry into basic flight training, the standards that will be lowered may not be flight time (they won’t have any), rather it will be high school/college grades, extra-curriculars, volunteer experiences, etc.