Zone1 DEI Created Meritoracy in the Federal Workforce, The Very Thing That Trump & His Minions Claim Has Been Lost as a Result of DEI

[Crepitus]

Do you have a point, or are you just mindlessly flailing in your irrational ORANGE MAN BAD hatred?

I'm asking a question.

Can you answer it?

 

[daveman]

I'm asking a question.

Can you answer it?

They didn't happen. This time, it did. No, it is not Trump's fault. It's the fault of whoever let DC ATC get in the condition where near-misses are common.

Did Trump go back in time to make them happen?

 

[Crepitus]

They didn't happen.

Why?

 

[daveman]

Why?

Luck.

You really think -- sorry, wrong word -- feel you have a point, don't you?

 

[Crepitus]

Luck.

You really think -- sorry, wrong word -- feel you have a point, don't you?

That's your answer?

Luck?

 

[daveman]

That's your answer?

Luck?

What's your explanation? Your little g-god Biden? Pete Bootyjudge?

 

[Crepitus]

What's your explanation? Your little g-god Biden? Pete Bootyjudge?

I'm not the one who needs to explain anything, Son.

 

[daveman]

I'm not the one who needs to explain anything, Son.

You want to blame Trump. It's a tropism, like a plant turning towards the light, and requiring as little thought.

And for that reason, I won't ask you to explain why you want to blame Trump.

But you don't like my explanation for why no collisions happened before now, so you get to offer your own.

 

[elektra]

Technically the Veteran's Preference act signed in 1944 is DEI

Veterans' Preference Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

How many vets or disabled vets get preference over someone who didn't serve? How many 10 point vets just went in front of someone with a 95% score over someone with a 75% on an exam to be hired for the job?

I did and my wife reminds me every once in awhile, lol

In 40 years I never once got points for being a veteran. I did get turned down for jobs though because I was a veteran

 

[elektra]

There is not air traffic controller scandal other than the ridiculous "buyout" the tRump offered and the fact that his cuts and policies were so extremely bad that they led to fatal consequences in mere days.

Because the democrat controlled media did not dictate a scandal to you than one does not exist.

That is faulty reasoning on your part

 

[elektra]

Not every black is a DEI hire…..just the dumber ones who wouldn’t have been hired if they weren’t white.

I know, I am just pointing out the faulty reasoning of the op

 

[daveman]

Trump Is Right: Obama FAA Policy Penalized 'High Aptitude' Applicants, Even Chicago Tribune Was Worried in 2021​

In the wake of the Washington, D.C., air disaster Wednesday which claimed 67 lives, scrutiny immediately fell upon air-traffic control readiness, given that a mid-air collision was involved.


Indeed, as The Washington Post reported, one controller was handling both airliner and helicopter traffic at Reagan National Airport when American Eagle Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided, something a source said was “not normal.”


Furthermore, the crash came just days after President Donald Trump signed an order rescinding an FAA initiative begun during the Obama years that prioritized hiring those with “targeted disabilities,” including “severe physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and intellectual disabilities.”


Naturally, the fact the specter of DEI hiring got mentioned in the wake of a crash where ATC fitness may have played a role infuriated Democrats, especially Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.


“While times of tragedy should be focused on mourning the victims and getting answers to their loved ones, we face the unfortunate reality that we must be honest with the nation about: Donald Trump is unfit to lead during moments of crisis like this,” Pritzker said in a statement.


“Before victims have even been identified, Trump is blaming people with disabilities. He’s blaming the U.S. service members in the Blackhawk helicopter. He’s blaming hiring programs he can’t even name or offer examples of. The buck stops with him – yet he is failing to demonstrate his role as protector of the American people and head of our government.”


Let’s disregard Pritzker claiming the buck stopped with Trump, blaming a president who had only been in office nine days for the crash. Apparently, Gov. Pritzker hasn’t been reading his hometown papers these past few years — because less than three years ago, the Chicago Tribune sounded the same warning about ATC readiness that the president did.


The piece began with the story of Brittany Powers, an honors student from Lewis University who was passed over by the Federal Aviation Administration not because of her qualifications, but because its “biographical assessment” portion of the hiring process included “questions about how peers would describe the individual and the age at which the person started to earn money.”


“It’s the result of an abrupt overhaul this year to the FAA’s air traffic controller hiring policy, which for almost 25 years gave preferred status to aviation graduates like Powers as well as former military controllers,” the Tribune reported.

“Now, the FAA is conducting an off-the-street recruiting process for all candidates. It begins with the assessment, which is open to most people with a high school diploma.”


“Critics argue that the unproven strategy will cost millions of dollars and could complicate FAA attempts to replenish its workforce, erode passenger safety in the long term and increase travel delays, in part because an influx of aviation novices hired from among the general public would create more work for veteran controllers in an already high-stress job.”


The report noted experts “also suggest that the policy appears quietly aimed at attracting more minorities and women to a workforce that is largely male and white, even though the FAA says the new policy is ‘blind on the issue of diversity, from start to finish.’”


This is decidedly not what the FAA’s webpage said, going all the way back to 2013.


“Diversity is integral to achieving FAA’s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond,” the page read.

“Because diversity is so critical, FAA actively supports and engages in a variety of associations, programs, coalitions and initiatives to support and accommodate employees from diverse communities and backgrounds. Our people are our strength, and we take great care in investing in and valuing them as such.”


Furthermore, the FAA has stopped hiring controllers from its usual source, the Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative — something that’s currently the source of a lawsuit which alleges the Obama administration overlooked roughly 1,000 qualified candidates because the pool wasn’t diverse enough.


The move away from the Collegiate Training Initiative, the Tribune noted, could lead to staffing shortages and create invisible hazards for fliers.


“The Association of Collegiate Training Institutions, which represents the 36 U.S. air traffic control schools, said the new FAA hiring process will ‘jeopardize air traffic safety, cost millions of dollars more to implement and take longer to train a controller workforce that is already critically under-manned,’” the report stated.


Also, as the Daily Signal noted in 2023, the implementation of the woke “biographical assessment” was even worse than it sounds on paper.


“The assessment reportedly gives more points to applicants who have not been employed for the last three years than to an applicant who answers that he has been a pilot or a veteran with an air traffic control-related military background,” the outlet reported.


Rep. Jim Banks, an Indiana Republican, noted that the “biographical assessment penalizes air traffic controller candidates who demonstrate a high aptitude in science. It’s insane.”


Then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson also sounded the alarm about the policy in 2018


“Applicants who had been unemployed for the previous three years got more points than licensed pilots got. In other words, the FAA actively searched for unqualified air traffic controllers,” Carlson said.


“That is insane. And they knew it was insane when they did it, but they did it anyway.”


Thus, one can only conclude that Gov. Pritzker isn’t much of a reader or news-watcher — or he simply ignores inconvenient facts. Either one removes him from serious consideration in this matter, however.


This isn’t to say that any of this played a role the crash that claimed 67 lives Wednesday night. But watering down air safety in the name of diversity will eventually end in tragedy if left unchecked — and a refusal to ask pertinent questions when they’re most needed will only ensure it happens sooner rather than later.

 

[elektra]

And now we learn just the day before the crash there was another military helicopter/airliner near miss!

 

[Mr. Friscus]

This is what a lack of critical thinkings skills does for you, but it's also a heightened form of gaslighting. Or to dumb it down a bit - you tell a lie, over and over and over again, never back down and people will eventually begin to remember that it's a lie.

DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives have contributed to creating a more meritocratic system in the federal workforce, particularly by ensuring that hiring and promotions are based on qualifications and abilities rather than bias or exclusionary practices.

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How DEI Created Meritocracy in the Federal Workforce​

1. Eliminating Exclusionary Practices
   • Before DEI efforts, certain racial, gender, and socioeconomic groups were systematically excluded from federal job opportunities, whether through explicit policies or implicit biases in hiring and promotion.
   • By removing barriers, DEI allowed a broader pool of qualified candidates to compete on merit rather than connections, race, or gender.
2. Expanding Access to Opportunities
   • Affirmative action and DEI initiatives opened federal positions to historically underrepresented groups.
   • Veteran hiring preferences, disability inclusion programs, and outreach efforts brought highly qualified candidates into government roles based on skills and expertise rather than traditional networks.
3. Objective Hiring Standards
   • The Merit System Principles (5 U.S.C. § 2301) ensure that federal hiring is based on ability, knowledge, and skills rather than personal favoritism.
   • DEI efforts reinforced structured hiring processes, like blind resume reviews and standardized evaluation criteria, reducing the impact of bias.
4. Promoting Fair Advancement
   • Historically, informal networks often dictated who got promotions and leadership roles.
   • DEI programs helped create clearer promotion pathways where employees were evaluated based on performance, not just who they knew.

How Did This Become Controversial?​

In recent years, critics have argued that some DEI efforts have gone beyond leveling the playing field and created new forms of exclusion, such as:​

• Diversity-focused hiring goals that, in some cases, led to accusations of reverse discrimination.
• Training programs that critics claim promote a specific ideological perspective rather than neutral professional development.
• Legal challenges questioning whether certain DEI programs comply with existing anti-discrimination laws.

So, Did DEI Create a Meritocracy?​

Yes, in the federal workforce, DEI helped build a more merit-based system by ensuring that hiring and advancement were based on ability rather than bias. However, the debate arises when policies perceived as ensuring diversity appear to conflict with strictly race-neutral or “colorblind” interpretations of merit.​

DEI and a meritocracy are opposing ideologies.

 

[IM2]

MEH..... It may have had a marginal effect on looking the other way from strange sites like men with dresses or women with nose rings.
But by and large DEI is a societal rot that deemphasizes merit.

You really don't know what merit is.

 

[IM2]

As someone involved with college admissions, I know this all too well. Of the black student body, 1 out of 3 would have qualified even if he or she were white. The other two out of three had standards lowered for them. The ones who suffer for that are 1) the 1 out of three blacks who qualified on merit, and 2) the whites, of course, with better metrics who were rejected to allow in the 2 out of 3 blacks who got in due to skin color.

You don't know anything about college admissions and you are lying.

 

[IM2]

The unfortunate reality is that DEI logically brings into question the legitimacy of blacks who do truly qualify. Those are the ones who should be just as upset about this as those who are passed over because of race.

Why would DEI bring into question only blacks when backs are not the only ones considered in DEI? And why can't whites be questioned about the legitimacy of everything they have since for most of American history whites were given everything because of their skin color no matter how unqualified?

 

[IM2]

DARK TIMES Ahead for Women's Rights Thanks to DEI Rollbacks? Whyte Women Surprised DEI Affects Them​

 

[Moonglow]

The air traffic controller scandal is the opposite of meritocracy.
DEI has nothing to do with meritocracy

What does?

 

[IM2]

The argument against DEI is racist. Period. You aren't arguing about merit, you are arguing about white. Whites on the right need to get rid of that White entitlement mentality your racism has created in your mind. Whites are not entitled to all the jobs; qualified does not mean white, competency does not mean white, and neither does merit.