{"id":1450624,"date":"2024-01-14T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1450624"},"modified":"2024-01-14T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:40:00","slug":"when-dei-becomes-die-faa-now-hiring-people-with-severe-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/when-dei-becomes-die-faa-now-hiring-people-with-severe-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disability\/1450624\/","title":{"rendered":"When DEI Becomes DIE: FAA Now Hiring People With &#8220;Severe Intellectual And Psychiatric Disability&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">When DEI Becomes DIE: FAA Now Hiring People With &#8220;Severe Intellectual And Psychiatric Disability&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Americans were stunned on Sunday afternoon after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/faas-diversity-push-includes-focus-hiring-people-severe-intellectual-psychiatric-disabilities\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0reported the Federal Aviation Administration, overseen by Mayor Secretary Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s Transporation Department, rolled out a new &#8220;Diversity and Inclusion&#8221; program to hire people with &#8220;<strong>severe intellectual disability<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>psychiatric disability<\/strong>&#8221; (among various other disabilities), just days after the latest mid-air near-disaster involving a Boeing 737 Max heightened the public&#8217;s attention to the potentially deadly impact of woke D<em>iversity, Equity, and Inclusion <\/em>policies in the skies.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,<\/em>&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/pwdp\">FAA&#8217;s website read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability, and dwarfism.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The FAA&#8217;s &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; (DEI) hiring plan claims that <strong>&#8220;diversity is integral to achieving FAA&#8217;s mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When satire becomes a reality&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Babylon Bee kind of predicted this! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ttwBb5uxDE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ttwBb5uxDE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1746661000101982414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is scary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FAA: what are your qualifications?<\/p>\n<p>Me: I\u2019m a fully paralyzed blind dwarf with schizophrenia and 80 iq<\/p>\n<p>FAA: how does Air Traffic Controller sound? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OKPvZ5n4sZ\">pic.twitter.com\/OKPvZ5n4sZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blightaga (@TheBlightaga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBlightaga\/status\/1746657127370723646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope that the purpose behind the FAA&#8217;s DEI hiring spree isn&#8217;t aimed at addressing the air traffic controller shortage. This won&#8217;t end well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GD1Uca3WMAA7Qt8.jpg?itok=_w7BYyY6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This development comes after a Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner&#8217;s door ripped off the plane while flying over Portland earlier this month. X users have said Boeing prioritizes DEI initiatives, which could jeopardize safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?&#8221; Elon Musk wrote on X last week. &#8220;That is actually happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FcTyzZD0uW\">https:\/\/t.co\/FcTyzZD0uW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1745158868676546609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new society of the clown world <em>(thank the Marxists in the White House pushing the woke agenda &#8211; while mega-corporations do the same).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GD1TTdWXYAEX2kQ.jpg?itok=I8zZGRwp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/where-meritocracy-goes-die-dei-racist-bigoted-collective-punishment\"><strong>DEI is clearly going too far&#8230;<\/strong><\/a> or do people first have to DIE for this to become common knowledge?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GD1RyGfX0AAvKWc.jpg?itok=73X5Az0N\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk is correct<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1735568882499211557?s=20\"><em>&#8220;DEI must DIE.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 01\/14\/2024 &#8211; 18:40<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/faas-new-dei-hiring-quota-troubling\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When DEI Becomes DIE: FAA Now Hiring People With &#8220;Severe Intellectual And Psychiatric Disability&#8221; Americans were stunned on Sunday afternoon after\u00a0Fox News\u00a0reported the Federal Aviation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}