Originally Posted by Hawk1G

That's some hardcore cherry picking you're doing there. Lets just gloss over the literally hundreds of accidents/incidents that have occurred over the years with white male pilots at the controls (many of which listing training issues as a contributing factor), and lets use one incident involving an ACMI carrier as evidence that DEI initiatives are somehow unsafe. The guy lied on his PRIA and resume, plain and simple. Where is the outrage for all of the zero to hero non-DEI hires with parents working at the same airline? Where is the outrage for the nepotism that has benefited white males for decades in this industry? The reality is that in this hiring cycle the historical experience requirements have indeed been lowered and that has likely benefited white men and women as much, if not, more than anyone. Take a look at the class pictures at your respective airlines and I'm sure you won't notice much variance from the current ratios of 90+ percent white males and then everyone else. No one is suggesting that standards should be lowered, or that safety should be compromised in the name of DEI. In fact, like the Tuskegee Airmen before us, we tend to hold ourselves to a higher standard because we know that the slightest slip up will result in fearmongering and the suggestion that minority pilots are somehow putting lives at risk.

Cry me a river.