Originally Posted by
CantTaxiToACS
Trying to look in the macro here. I don’t think it’s about the 2,500 people that have to be not a white dude. It’s more about 20 years from now another kid seeing an African American woman as a captain. Filling a racial quota today will lead to a more uniform and fair pool in the future because small kids will see people who look like them up front and then be inspired. It doesn’t have to be a binary argument. Yes, it’s a little dystopian on the surface but it’s not about now, it’s really for 15-25 years from now. It’s about the small girl seeing a female captain and realizing that being an airline captain is an option.
This is a very interesting point you're bringing up.
As I mentioned in my previous post, by default, any pilot I fly with today is a rockstar who has more than earned his/her way to the left seat at my airline. I recently flew with a captain who started out in the Navy as a Tomcat RIO. He wanted to fly, but none of his RIO time would count towards anything. While still in the Navy, he'd fly on the side and instructed. He was building hours so he could pursue a civilian flying career after the Navy. He ended up at Skywest, retired from the Navy, upgraded, built his TPIC time, got hired at Southwest. He was one of the nicest people I've flown with and very humble and down to earth despite his achievements. Does it really matter that he's African-American?
15-20 years from now, using your example, are we gonna be looking at people like this outstanding captain I mentioned above, and instead of presuming they're rockstars, will we presume that they are 'quota hires'? That's what this woke virtue signaling is doing to them. It's not promoting them - it's assuming they're incapable of great things on their own merits, only to make these woke idiots feel good about themselves.