A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white

[Drop Dead Fred]

/—-/ “Cmptency”
It means being able to spell competency correctly.

That's a typo, which is not the same thing as an inability to spell correctly.

 

[Foxfyre]

This information needs to be spread far and wide. DEI really does equal DIE. Supporters of DEI don't care about human lives. They are perfectly OK with people dying in order to enact their ridiculous ideology.

A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) February 1, 2025 Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers. But the proof keeps coming out more and mor…

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A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white​

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

February 1, 2025

Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers.

But the proof keeps coming out more and more and more.

I don’t expect the liberals to admit that they were wrong.

But I do like to keep documenting this, and showing it to as many people as possible.

The Telegraph just reported:

https://archive.ph/5iuqQ

An aspiring air traffic controller who claimed he was denied a job because of diversity targets said the aviation agency’s obsession with inclusion made an accident likely to happen.

Andrew Brigida, 35, scored 100 per cent in his training exam but alleged that he was denied a position in an air traffic control tower because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recruitment process favoured diverse candidates. He is part of a class action lawsuit filed against the federal agency.

Speaking after the Washington air disaster, in which 67 people were killed, Mr Brigida claimed that years of diversity hiring meant it was only a matter of time before an accident happened.

“You want to hire the best and the brightest for this kind of job because it is a very stressful job and it can take a toll on you, age you prematurely,” he told The Telegraph. “You want to make sure that the people that are doing it are the best.”

Mr Brigida graduated from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013 – a partnership programme with the FAA that was previously used to train and select the most qualified applicants.

After scoring top marks in his air traffic control selection and training examination, he was placed on a preferred candidate list until the FAA changed the rules.

Under the Obama administration, the regulator replaced a skills-based test with a biographical questionnaire to attract more diverse applicants.

When Mr Brigida tried again to become an air traffic controller under the new tests, he said he failed the biographical questionnaire because he “didn’t fit the preferred ethnic profile”.

Same thing with my husband in this bright blue woke state. When we first moved back to New Mexico, he was a highly skilled all perils insurance adjuster and also had passed exams to be insurance agent in two states. He took the exam to be on the New Mexico Insurance Commission, a government job, and aced it. Scored the highest score ever recorded for that test.

He was not hired because he was a registered Republican and an 'Anglo' instead of Hispanic or so an insider in government informed him. Another person taking the same test on the same day was hired.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Yep, he is saying that he should get the job because he is white. Because the story is a lie.

It's not a lie.

After he graduated, his degree was retroactively canceled because he was white.

Now he's part of a 1,000 person class action lawsuit.

Here are some sources which prove that this really did happen:

Google Scholar: Andrew J Brigida, Plaintiff, v. United States Department of Transportation, et al., Defendants.

BRIGIDA v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Dist. Court, D. Arizona 2016 - Google Scholar

GovInfo: 16-2227 – BRIGIDA v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al

GovInfo

Justia: BRIGIDA v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al, No. 1:2016cv02227 – Document 130 (D.D.C. 2021)

BRIGIDA v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al, No. 1:2016cv02227 - Document 130 (D.D.C. 2021)

Mountain States Legal Foundation: Brigida v. U.S. Department of Transportation: The FAA’s Racial Politics Endangered Public Safety

Brigida v. U.S. Department of Transportation - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Casetext: Brigida v. U.S. Dep’t of Transp.

Brigida v. U.S. Dep't of Transp., No. CV-15-02654-PHX-DLR | Casetext Search + Citator

Wall St. Journal, May 22, 2014: FAA Closes a Hiring Runway for Air-Traffic Controllers

https://archive.ph/nlpF5

Chicago Tribune, July 30, 2014: Half of air traffic controller job offers go to people with no aviation experience

https://archive.ph/1LeDQ

The Blaze, June 2, 2018: Obama-era FAA hiring rules placed air traffic controller diversity ahead of safety, lawyer says

https://archive.ph/NyT02

Mountain States Legal Foundation, November 1, 2019: Thousands of Air Traffic Controller Candidates Seek Class Action Status in Lawsuit Over FAA Hiring Discrimination

Thousands of Air Traffic Controller Candidates Seek Class Action Status in Lawsuit Over FAA Hiring Discrimination - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Mountain States Legal Foundation, February 1, 2020: Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices Cleared for Takeoff as a Class Action

Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices Cleared for Takeoff as a Class Action - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Washington Times, February 1, 2024: FAA turned away qualified air traffic controllers based solely on race

https://archive.ph/nr6xg

Fox Business, April 25, 2024: FAA lawsuit claims agency discriminated against air traffic controller applicants on the basis of race

https://archive.ph/B9ZYx

Washington Times, May 14, 2024: DEI has jeopardized air safety

https://archive.ph/pUwdr

Washington Post, January 30, 2025: Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries

https://archive.ph/Vk5fy

Washington Times, January 30, 2025: FAA’s diversity hiring practices were under scrutiny long before the air disaster in Washington

https://archive.ph/pbaID

Western Journal, January 31, 2025: Watch: Tucker Carlson Uncovered Devastating FAA Emails in 2018, Proved Obama Team Knew They Were Playing with Fire

https://archive.ph/SAgyk

New York Post, January 31, 2025: FAA embroiled in lawsuit alleging it turned away 1,000 applicants based on race — that contributed to staffing woes

https://archive.ph/To915

Telegraph, January 31, 2025: ‘Diversity hiring cost me job at FAA, a crash was inevitable’, claims whistleblower after accident

https://archive.ph/5iuqQ

Washington Examiner, January 31, 2025: What to know about the suit against FAA diversity policies critics blame for crash

https://archive.ph/U5rF5

The Sun, January 31, 2025: ‘DIVERSITY’ DISASTER Would-be air traffic controller ‘denied job over diversity’ says DC crash was ‘inevitable’ after Trump blamed equality

Would-be air traffic controller 'denied job' says crash 'inevitable'

PJ Media, January 31, 2025: Trump Was Right: FAA Turned Away Qualified Controllers Over Race

Trump Was Right: FAA Turned Away Qualified Controllers Over Race

Daily Mail, February 1, 2025: FAA turned away 1,000 job applicants because of its DEI rules despite staff shortages, lawsuit claims

https://archive.ph/mjDGS

News Corp Australia, February 1, 2025: 1000 air traffic controllers ‘denied jobs’

https://archive.ph/ukbAz

Topeka Capital-Journal, February 3, 2025: Why Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall thinks DEI programs contributed to D.C. plane crash

Why Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall thinks DEI programs contributed to D.C. plane crash

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

You mean back in 2013?

Then how come we had no accidents before Trump got there and started taking a chainsaw to the government? In fact, the last major plane crash was in 2009, and that was pilot error.

That's a very good question. I don't know the answer.

But I still think it's wrong to retroactively cancel a person's college degree after they graduated.

 

[Dante]

This information needs to be spread far and wide. DEI really does equal DIE. Supporters of DEI don't care about human lives. They are perfectly OK with people dying in order to enact their ridiculous ideology.

A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) February 1, 2025 Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers. But the proof keeps coming out more and mor…

danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com

A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white​

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

February 1, 2025

Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers.

But the proof keeps coming out more and more and more.

I don’t expect the liberals to admit that they were wrong.

But I do like to keep documenting this, and showing it to as many people as possible.

The Telegraph just reported:

https://archive.ph/5iuqQ

An aspiring air traffic controller who claimed he was denied a job because of diversity targets said the aviation agency’s obsession with inclusion made an accident likely to happen.

Andrew Brigida, 35, scored 100 per cent in his training exam but alleged that he was denied a position in an air traffic control tower because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recruitment process favoured diverse candidates. He is part of a class action lawsuit filed against the federal agency.

Speaking after the Washington air disaster, in which 67 people were killed, Mr Brigida claimed that years of diversity hiring meant it was only a matter of time before an accident happened.

“You want to hire the best and the brightest for this kind of job because it is a very stressful job and it can take a toll on you, age you prematurely,” he told The Telegraph. “You want to make sure that the people that are doing it are the best.”

Mr Brigida graduated from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013 – a partnership programme with the FAA that was previously used to train and select the most qualified applicants.

After scoring top marks in his air traffic control selection and training examination, he was placed on a preferred candidate list until the FAA changed the rules.

Under the Obama administration, the regulator replaced a skills-based test with a biographical questionnaire to attract more diverse applicants.

When Mr Brigida tried again to become an air traffic controller under the new tests, he said he failed the biographical questionnaire because he “didn’t fit the preferred ethnic profile”.

Mr Brigida claims are his to make

This is a race thread. doesn't belong here in politics

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

And nowhere in this does it say those who were hired, weren't up to the job.

In fact it seems that this wasn't caused by having someone who wasn't up to the standard, but just there weren't enough people. Now, clearly if this guy claiming he got 100% on his exam and didn't get the job, there are enough people applying, but not enough doing the job. You think that's a DEI issue? It's not.

The DC control tower was understaffed when the crash happened.

1,000 people who got degrees in air traffic control had their degrees retroactively canceled after they graduated, because they were white males.

This has everything to do with DEI.

 

[berg80]

Trump expanded — not withdrew — a hiring initiative aimed at people with disabilities

In 2010, Obama’s administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to hire more people with disabilities, noting that although 54 million people in the U.S. have disabilities, they were underrepresented in the federal workforce. The FAA incorporated the directive into its hiring practices.

That didn’t stop when Trump took office in 2017. Archives of the FAA’s website show the agency continually highlighted its diversity hiring initiatives, including its aims to hire people with disabilities, from 2013 up until Trump reclaimed office in 2025, including throughout Trump’s first term, 2017 to 2021. The page was taken down after Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20.

Fact-checking Trump’s claims on FAA diversity policies

Hours after a plane crashed over the Potomac River a few miles from the White House, President Donald Trump held a press

www.politifact.com

Clearly the best approach to take with anything Baby Donald says is assume it's a lie until proven otherwise.

 

[Dante]

This information needs to be spread far and wide. DEI really does equal DIE. Supporters of DEI don't care about human lives. They are perfectly OK with people dying in order to enact their ridiculous ideology.

A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) February 1, 2025 Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers. But the proof keeps coming out more and mor…

danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com

A guy named Andrew Brigida, who scored 100% on the air-traffic controller exam, was turned down for the job because he was white​

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

February 1, 2025

Liberals keep insisting that Obama never lowered the standards for air-traffic controllers.

But the proof keeps coming out more and more and more.

I don’t expect the liberals to admit that they were wrong.

But I do like to keep documenting this, and showing it to as many people as possible.

The Telegraph just reported:

https://archive.ph/5iuqQ

An aspiring air traffic controller who claimed he was denied a job because of diversity targets said the aviation agency’s obsession with inclusion made an accident likely to happen.

Andrew Brigida, 35, scored 100 per cent in his training exam but alleged that he was denied a position in an air traffic control tower because the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recruitment process favoured diverse candidates. He is part of a class action lawsuit filed against the federal agency.

Speaking after the Washington air disaster, in which 67 people were killed, Mr Brigida claimed that years of diversity hiring meant it was only a matter of time before an accident happened.

“You want to hire the best and the brightest for this kind of job because it is a very stressful job and it can take a toll on you, age you prematurely,” he told The Telegraph. “You want to make sure that the people that are doing it are the best.”

Mr Brigida graduated from Arizona State University’s collegiate training initiative in 2013 – a partnership programme with the FAA that was previously used to train and select the most qualified applicants.

After scoring top marks in his air traffic control selection and training examination, he was placed on a preferred candidate list until the FAA changed the rules.

Under the Obama administration, the regulator replaced a skills-based test with a biographical questionnaire to attract more diverse applicants.

When Mr Brigida tried again to become an air traffic controller under the new tests, he said he failed the biographical questionnaire because he “didn’t fit the preferred ethnic profile”.

Party Names - don't see Obama mentioned: next ​

ELAINE CHAO, Defendant
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Defendant
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Defendant
ANTHONY R FOXX, Defendant
MICHAEL P. HUERTA, Defendant
STEPHANIE JONES, Defendant
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Defendant
JENNY R. YANG, Defendant
ANDREW J. BRIGIDA, Plaintiff
MATTHEW L. DOUGLAS-COOK, Plaintiff
LUCAS K. JOHNSON, Plaintiff
SUZANNE M. REBICH, Plaintiff
POLLYANNA L. WANG, Plaintiff

 

[Dante]

The DC control tower was understaffed when the crash happened.

1,000 people who got degrees in air traffic control had their degrees retroactively canceled after they graduated, because they were white males.

This has everything to do with DEI.

stop spinning

 

[berg80]

No.

I'm saying that being white is not a legitimate reason to retroactively cancel someone's college degree.

He went to college.

He took the classes.

He did his homework.

He studied.

He passed all his classes.

He graduated.

But now, they're saying that because he's a white male, his degree no longer matters.

Besides air traffic controller, is there any other job where you think a person's college degree should be retroactively canceled after they graduate?

Did FAA reject air traffic controllers based on race? What we know

The federal agency is facing a major class action lawsuit of alleged discriminatory hiring polices during the Obama administration.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Or accidents just happened.

As near as I can tell, there are three contributing factors.

1) The Helicopter was 200 feet too high and 1/2 a mile off course.
2) The ATC Tower was understaffed because an employee went home sick.
3) The plane was diverted to a different runway because the primary one was full.

All of these sound like fairly common occurrences regardless of "competence". People are human, they make mistakes.

The tower was understaffed because 1,000 people who got college degrees in air traffic control had their degrees retroactively canceled after they graduated because they were white males.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

But both pilots were white.

The pilot who was flying a very complex military helicopter at a busy commercial airport at night only had 500 hours of flight instruction.

I'm no aviation expert, but I don't think that's how they usually staff those kinds of flights.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Why didn't Trump scrap this his first term?

That is an excellent question.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

The Army helicopter — which was operating out of Fort Belvoir, Va., with what officials described as an experienced crew, had been approved to fly a specific route that would have let it avoid the American Airlines plane. But it did not follow the intended route, according to four people who were briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly. The route it took was a half-mile away and higher in attitude, they said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/plane-crash-dc-helicopter-reagan-airport.html

trumples will continue to follow Dotard's lead by questioning the quality of the air traffic controllers or the pilots. The early evidence points to the helicopter not complying with instructions to follow a specific route requiring it to fly at a lower altitude.

It was the pilot, not the helicopter, that ignored those instructions.

Why was a pilot with only 500 hours of flying experience flying a complex military helicopter at a busy commercial airport at night?

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

MAGA lies.

BIDEN lies^

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

neither does white privilege.

A guy who scored 100% on the college air-traffic controller degree program had his degree retroactively canceled after he graduated because he was a white male.

Only someone on the far, far left would think that that was a good idea.

I'm guessing that more than 90% of the population thinks this guy should have been hired as an air-traffic controller.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Same thing with my husband in this bright blue woke state. When we first moved back to New Mexico, he was a highly skilled all perils insurance adjuster and also had passed exams to be insurance agent in two states. He took the exam to be on the New Mexico Insurance Commission, a government job, and aced it. Scored the highest score ever recorded for that test.

He was not hired because he was a registered Republican and an 'Anglo' instead of Hispanic or so an insider in government informed him. Another person taking the same test on the same day was hired.

That was very evil of them to do that horrible thing to your husband. I am so, so sorry that they did that.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Mr Brigida claims are his to make

This is a race thread. doesn't belong here in politics

This is very much about politics.

Have you ever heard of the 1964 Civil Right Act?

 

[Dante]

This is very much about politics.

Have you ever heard of the 1964 Civil Right Act?

race?

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

Party Names - don't see Obama mentioned: next ​

ELAINE CHAO, Defendant
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Defendant
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, Defendant
ANTHONY R FOXX, Defendant
MICHAEL P. HUERTA, Defendant
STEPHANIE JONES, Defendant
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Defendant
JENNY R. YANG, Defendant
ANDREW J. BRIGIDA, Plaintiff
MATTHEW L. DOUGLAS-COOK, Plaintiff
LUCAS K. JOHNSON, Plaintiff
SUZANNE M. REBICH, Plaintiff
POLLYANNA L. WANG, Plaintiff

The policy was enacted in 2013.