On Tuesday, United Airlines announced in its new training plan to have 5,000 new pilots by 2030. The airline in its announcement made it known that it wants at least half of the pilots to be women and people of color. United is the only major U.S. airline with its own flight school, United Aviate Academy.
United CEO Scott Kirby in an interview with CBS went on to explain why his company made this “woke” decision. Kirby went on to say that there is limited diversity among its pilots with only 13 percent of pilots not being white and only 7 percent of the airline’s pilots are female.
This decision from United was discussed on this Wednesday’s installment of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson said, “Safety is no longer that airline’s top concern—identity politics is.”
“The way people look is totally irrelevant. How they perform is all you should care about. Once you forget that, airplanes tend to crash… Hiring on the basis of irrelevant criteria will, over time, get people killed, and it will,” he said. “We have to fight for the colorblind meritocracy for real. I mean, our lives depend on meritocracy.” And placing people who aren’t the best in these positions will cost people their lives in the act of just being “pc.”
Tucker went on to call United’s new initiative “a combination of a hyper-aggressive corporate HR department and a left-wing political action committee… big on moral pronouncements and mandatory social engineering.”
Carlson called United’s initiative “a combination of a hyper-aggressive corporate HR department and a left-wing political action committee… big on moral pronouncements and mandatory social engineering.”
United announced, “All the highly qualified candidates we accept into the academy, regardless of race or sex, will have met or exceeded the standards we set for admittance,” in the following statement over Twitter.
Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That’s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. Learn more and apply now: https://t.co/VbOFvFOksB pic.twitter.com/r0ScH6MQAJ
— United Airlines (@united) April 6, 2021
However, Carlson said that the company was lying.
“We know they’re lying and you know it too,” he said, “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.”
