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Subject: Re: FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with 'severe
intellectual' and 'psychiatric' disabilities
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 by: Geoff Rove - Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:30 UTC

On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 1:51:31 PM UTC-6, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faa-s-diversity-push-includes-focus-on-
> hiring-people-with-severe-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/ar-
> AA1mXm4b
>
> The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who
> suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other
> mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring
> initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.

So what is Boeing's excuse ?? Hiring factory mechanics from Idaho ??

>
> "Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government,
> as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment
> and hiring," the FAA’s website states. "They include hearing, vision,
> missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy,
> severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism."
>
> The initiative is part of the FAA’s "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan,
> which claims "diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring
> safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond." The FAA’s website
> shows the agency’s guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on
> March 23, 2022.
> The FAA, which is overseen by Secretary Pete Buttigieg's Department of
> Transportation, is a government agency charged with regulating civil
> aviation and employs roughly 45,000 people.
>
> ELON MUSK DINGS BOEING AFTER ALASKA AIRLINES SCARE: 'PRIORITIZED DEI
> HIRING'
>
> All eyes have been on the FAA and airline industry in recent days, after a
> plug door on a Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out during an Alaska Airlines flight
> on Jan. 5. The FAA grounded all 737 MAX 9 planes after the incident, and
> is carrying out an "extensive inspection" and maintenance work.
>
> The FAA added it would increase its oversight of Boeing following the
> incident, including auditing Boeing's 737 Max 9 jetliner production line
> and companies that supply parts to the airline manufacturer.
>
> Following the incident, social media commenters and public figures have
> charged that airlines and airline manufacturers' emphasis on diversity,
> equity, and inclusion initiatives has made flying less safe.
>
> ALASKA AIRLINES CANCELS ALL FLIGHTS ON BOEING 737-9 MAX AIRCRAFT THROUGH
> JAN. 13 AFTER MID-AIR DOOR BLOWOUT
>
> "Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over
> your safety?," tech billionaire Elon Musk wrote on X last week. "That is
> actually happening."
>
> "The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think," Daily
> Wire commentator Matt Walsh wrote in an op-ed last week.
>
> Critics of such commentary have pushed back on the argument that
> prioritizing DEI has made traveling less safe, with civil rights groups
> slamming Musk, for example, for the "abhorrent and pathetic" tweet.
>
> On the FAA’s website, the agency claims that people with "severe" mental
> and physical disabilities are the most under-represented segment of the
> federal workforce.
>
> "Because diversity is so critical, FAA actively supports and engages in a
> variety of associations, programs, coalitions and initiatives to support
> and accommodate employees from diverse communities and backgrounds. Our
> people are our strength, and we take great care in investing in and
> valuing them as such," the FAA states.
>
> Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm – a group of health care
> professionals, medical students and policymakers working to "protect
> health care from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology" – told
> Fox News Digital that similar to the medical field, the aviation industry
> has an obligation to protect its travelers.
>
> ‘I HIRE FOR DIVERSITY’: BIDEN JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN NOMINEE PLACED DEI AT
> 'FOREFRONT' AS AIR FORCE LEADER
>
> "The aviation industry has a responsibility for traveler safety just as
> the health care industry has a responsibility for patient safety. These
> responsibilities outweigh other factors when considering applicants to
> work in those fields. People with disabilities who can successfully
> complete the task should never face discrimination," said Goldfarb, a
> retired professor and the former associate dean for curriculum at the
> University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
>
> "Unfortunately," Goldfarb said, identity politics is "creating
> opportunities for so-called oppressed groups by lowering standards for
> entry into those fields and thereby endangering the safety of those which
> it’s designed to serve. Some endeavors simply do not lend themselves to
> identity politics," he added.
>
> BOEING FIRED 65 EMPLOYEES, DISCIPLINED 53 OVER RACIST CONDUCT, COMPANY
> SAYS
>
> Fox News Digital reached out to the FAA for details on what jobs people
> with disabilities would fulfill at the agency, but did not receive a reply
> Sunday. The website does state that some managers can hire disabled people
> and veterans through an "On-the-Spot hiring process," providing required
> documentation is submitted.
>
> The FAA also details that employees with disabilities will be provided
> "reasonable accommodation" on the job.
>
> Reasonable accommodation at the FAA "ensures that employees with
> disabilities have access to accommodations that suit their needs. This can
> include modifications made to existing facilities or special equipment,"
> according to the website.
>
>
> --
> We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
> stupid people won't be offended.
>
> Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
>
> No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
> Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
>
> Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
> fiasco, President Trump.
>
> Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
> The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
> queer liberal democrat donors.
>
> President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
> dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.

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