Originally Posted by Fivestripes

DEI is corrosive. As evidenced by our degraded culture. We use to all put on our uniforms and we were the same team. One team rowing the boat the same direction for the same reason. This is no longer the case. We are not only being told but instructed to see our fellow employees differently. We are not SWA pilots anymore. We are black pilots, or gay pilots or female pilots. We don’t have SWA flight attendants, we have gay flight attendants, or flight attendants of color. We have badges, stickers and flare issued by the company to signify our new declared group within our culture. DEI does not celebrate diversity, it hyper focuses on our differences. It tells us our fellow employees are not of our peer group but rather of some other group for which we must recognize. We had a pilot some years back that went through gender transition at a time when no one had. You all that have been around no who I’m talking about. Every conversation around this individual went like this. “Have you ever flown with (*****), she’s a great pilot. No one forced pronouns, and everyone recognized ability over identity. I’m sure this individual heard and saw everything because of the time but everyone saw them first as one of us. This would not happen today. “The Golden Rule” they speak of has been mandated out. How do you treat everyone as you want to be treated when you are bombarded all day and every day with messaging that says you must see them as different from yourself? I’m not sure what the answer is but we all have one thing in common, regardless of our outside life- our uniform. That’s where our focus should be, not what’s under it.