Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 1mo
This is a fun one: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/keeping-americans-safe-in-aviation/ Trump specifically ended DEI at the FAA. Pretty obvious that people die when you hire flight controllers on the basis of something other than competence.
Boog @BlokchainB - 1mo
I think they do but sometimes the best person is overlooked because they dont check a DEI box
They had an explicit goal to hire people with severe disabilities, including severe intellectual disabilities and psychiatric disabilities: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-faas-disability-bait-and-switch/
Notably, in an organization like the FAA there used to be places for "mail boys with Down's syndrome" Due to automation, a lot less of those jobs exist that actually can be usefully done by people with those disabilities. Secondly, part of DEI has been a demand for salary equality. The "mail boy" is a job that was worth a lot less salary than your actual key employees. Demanding equality in salaries messes everything up by forcing hiring to hire unqualified people to jobs they can't do to meet diversity targets.
It's the FAA – an extremely important federal service involved in life and death services – not a charity. Let them hire based on competence.
And to be clear, part of the DEI efforts was very explicitly applied to flight controllers: https://x.com/growing_daniel/status/1752015805158760954 The most qualified applicants were in fact bring overlooked in favor of less qualified, more "diverse" applicants.
