United has been down this road before, 45 years ago. In spite of their best recruiting efforts, even waiving hiring standards to minimal commercial qualifications, United was still unable to attract the numbers dictated by the EEOC complaint and were sued.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday that under terms of the settlement, Chicago-based United will offer pilot jobs to 83 applicants and pay $1.7 million in back pay. The agreement stems from a lawsuit EEOC filed in 1988 alleging United had violated provisions of a 1976 consent decree under which it was required to hire more female and minority pilots. The case was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

″We think we have done some good things in this area and attracted a lot of pilots who are minorities and also who are female, and we have a very good record in this,″ the official said. (https://apnews.com/article/6d84f2a4b...70da35a09d9616)


Although perhaps well intentioned, these woke corporate approaches to solve society's ills rarely end well. Whatever the case, the sins of the past will not be remedied by reversing the identity of the victim. Per the Supreme Court, reverse discrimination is still discrimination and in 2003, ruled the use of racial quotas for school admissions to be unconstitutional (Gratz v. Bollinger).


"Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories."