RandyBrian wrote:
OK. Let's spell it out for you.
The general idea of not hiring the most qualified in order to meet racial quota requirements is clearly stupid, and is a violation of the law that judges, etc, have chosen to ignore or proclaim as "needed". In many cases it is dangerous, and in a few cases insanely dangerous.
IF any airline uses such a system to hire less than qualified pilots, then buying a large insurance policy before flying is the thing to do to protect your family. Preferably from the airline itself, so that THEY are paying the cost if the worst should happen. That was my point in the prior post.
I do not know about the hiring policies for flight controllers, but if the other posting is true, and racial quotas are in place, then that, too, is i***tic and dangerous.
My first indirect contact with racial quotas was in 1974, when I met a fellow at college, a brilliant man, who lost out to a less qualified minority student for admittance to MIT. During college, when I taught Physics labs, I saw many more examples. Exchange students brought in who could not speak or understand the English language, but they helped the university meet quotas. In the decades since, I have seen this stupidity applied many times, and have not seen a single example where good came from it. I deplore r****m in ANY form. Including the quotas system that the left loves so much.
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