Tucker sounds off on United Airlines latest 'gender, racial' quota

good evening welcome to tucker carlson tonight you know what people care about most by what's at the top of their to-do list and on his very first day in office joe biden signed something called an executive order on advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities you ought to go read it go ahead and see if you can figure out what it means the document uses the term equity a total of 21 times and yet revealingly never defines the word so what is equity joe biden never tells us never even hints his order proclaims that america will be getting quote an ambitious whole of government equity agenda so whatever it is equity is ambitious and it will be everywhere but we're not allowed to know what it is that's odd for three months we've been trying to guess what is this equity that is now our country's main reason for existing we know it's not the same as equality or even closely related in the name of equity for example the byte administration supports open discrimination against asian college applicants they're asian therefore they can't get into school it's that simple we used to call that kind of behavior racism we had laws against it now we call it equity and we have laws demanding it it turns out that racism and equity are pretty much the same thing who knew here's the latest illustration of the principle and it comes not from the biden administration but from united airlines united used to be a conventional commercial air carrier it flew airplanes from place to place most of the time uneventfully that was the old united airlines the new united is very different it's a combination of a hyper-aggressive corporate hr department and a left-wing political action committee the new united airlines is big on moral pronouncements and mandatory social engineering united has embraced equity here's its latest directive spelled out yesterday on twitter quote our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day that's why we plan for 50 percent of the 5 000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color end quote united airlines is mandating affirmative action quotas in its flight schools and that's a big change for the country when coca-cola embraces some equity scheme you understand why they're doing it they're hoping that by hiring more black executives no one will ask just how many black americans have gotten diabetes from drinking coke for coca-cola equity is a purely defensive pr move and it makes sense but airlines are different an airline pilot transports hundreds of people at a time in a thin-walled metal tube going nearly 600 miles an hour 35 000 feet off the ground flying a commercial airliner is dangerous like performing heart surgery no matter how many times you've done it it's inherently high stakes people die if you screw up in the airline business as in medicine not killing people is all that matters so how will racial and gender quotas make united airlines safer that's the only question that matters the company's ceo went on cbs news recently to explain only seven percent of united airlines pilots are women one of the highest percentages in the industry and 13 percent of its pilots are people of color they simply don't have the access or the opportunity in an exclusive interview with cbs news united ceo scott kirby is announcing a new effort to bring balance to the flight deck we're excited at united to be announcing the united aviation academy to address the structural issues with the makeup of our pilots so only seven percent of united airlines pilots are female fretted cbs only 13 percent aren't white okay but why exactly should we care about those numbers an airline pilot's job is to land the plane safely everything else is irrelevant if a hundred percent of united airlines pilots were black women or malaysian muslims or for that matter white men from alabama not a single sane person would complain about it as long as the airplanes didn't crash safety is all that matters but you'll notice the ceo of united didn't mention safety safety is no longer that airline's top concern identity politics is now united will dispute that characterization of course in a statement to this show two hours ago they already have disputed it united airlines will continue to uphold its high standards they told us but they're lying we know they're lying and you know it too because in the airline business there is only one standard that matters and it is not race and it's not gender it's competence the way people look is totally irrelevant how they perform is all you should care about once you forget that airplanes tend to crash everyone knows that's true very much including the people who run this country many of them don't fly united they don't fly commercial at all they use netjets the largest private airline in the world has net jets embraced equity or hiring quotas of course not check out the net jets website if you have a minute and they'll tell you exactly what they're looking for in the airline pilots they hire here's the first line we seek individuals who demonstrate an unwavering dedication to safety that's the first requirement on their list we couldn't find any mention of race or gender and that should not surprise you because once again race and gender are literally irrelevant to who flies your airplane nancy pelosi and john kerry and the rest of our private jet dependent ruling class know that perfectly well they will not be demanding quotas at net jets anytime soon their families fly on netjet's airplanes so if hiring on the basis of a relevant criteria will over time get people killed and it will why are they demanding it because they don't care they're ideologues they are suffering from an incurable brain disease called wokeness reality means nothing to them it's merely an impediment to their plans watch the new head of the doj's civil rights division ironically a black supremacist called kristen clarke admit as much as she told us a few years ago equity is more important than safety do you think that airlines should apply the same diversity rules you're calling for here that they shouldn't take the people who score the highest on the pilot tests but that they should hire also on appearance the way people look every workplace whether you're talking about pilots to heart surgeons federal agencies should hire the best but should place a premium on diversity and which is more important the way that you look or what you do what you're capable of doing so like when you're flying a plane how important is it what you look like your appearance incredibly important and it's also important that we have important it's also important that we place a premium on diversity what you look like is an essential quality it's incredibly important in an airline pilot what are we watching here exactly well it's deluded but it's also pretty clearly a racial attack christian clark is saying the ceo of united airlines is saying that we need to replace the pilots currently flying airplanes because they're the wrong skin color only diseased people think like this imagine if we applied this same standard to other professions how about professional sports african-american men account for roughly six percent of the american population and yet about 75 percent of the players in the national basketball league are black men that doesn't sound like equity it sounds like what kristen clarke refers to as disproportionate representation so what if to remedy that lack of equity the nba announced tomorrow that going forward at least half of its players 50 percent had to be white asian hispanic or female to better represent the fans in the stands how would we respond to that we would understand immediately and we would say so that that is a racist policy no one even alleged that nba players are doing a bad job we had all assumed correctly as we do with airline pilots that they were hired in the first place because they were the best the company could find but nevertheless they had to be replaced because they were the wrong race and gender it's sick you think it couldn't happen why wouldn't it happen by the logic of identity politics it has to happen nba players make a whole lot more than airline pilots at some point someone's going to notice that and that's the whole problem with this way of thinking this diseased way of thinking you do not want to live in a completely racialized country where a person's genetics are the most important thing about them were you reduced to your dna dehumanized but that's exactly the society they're creating and what's the result of what they're doing every action provokes a reaction that's the most basic principle in physics when you attack people for qualities they can't control over time you will make them radical that is guaranteed you've got to wonder if it's ever occurred to the morons pushing this equity garbage that everyone on earth has an identity if you make identity politics mandatory and they have how long until you get white identity politics ever consider that you reckless fools how long before there is no national identity at all in this country only warring tribes fighting each other for the spoils does anyone want to raise children in a society like that only the racists want that but that's exactly where they're pushing us and at high speed a couple of years ago we reported the federal aviation administration had lowered its standards in order to bring equity to air traffic control as part of that initiative the faa began administering something called a biographical questionnaire to applicants this is significant for all the people tempted to believe united or the us military when they say that by bringing equity to the process they're not lowering standards they are by definition candidates were asked in the case of the faa whether they got mostly a's in high school if they said they did yes they got five points for a's candidates were also asked if they had been unemployed for the past three years if they answered yes to that question they got 10 points they got double the points for three years of unemployment as they did for getting straight a's how does that make us safer that's a rhetorical question obviously

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/PazuzuTheDemon73]

If there is an occupation that definitely requires a meritocracy, it is being a pilot. These people are responsible for transporting hundreds of people in a metal tube 30,000 ft in the air at 600 MPH. Would you feel comfortable if Latisha was your pilot or someone became a pilot essentially through affirmative action ? lol. Fuck no I wouldn't....

[u/EngiNERD1988]

I for one refuse to fly unless my pilot is bi-racial lesbian furry.

Being a well trained pilot? Well that’s a secondary issue really.

[u/Tim5corpion]

In unrelated news, demand for ocean liners suddenly rise.

[u/Sufficient_Winter_45]

Note to self: don't fly United.

And they break guitars.

[u/badgerninjacow]

Thankfully it’s mostly flown by the computers.