Fact Check: Yes, Obama and Biden Had FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, Severe Physical Disabilities

As someone whose father was in the aeronautics business — and who got passed on plenty of his wisdom from a young age — there are two things that I know, even as an unskilled observer, about airplane crashes.

The first is that there’s never one single thing to blame for disasters, especially when it involves airliners; so much redundancy is built into the system that numerous things have to go wrong, either simultaneously or over a period of time, for a crash to happen. The second is that nobody — nobody — knows what caused the disaster in the first 24 hours. (Anyone old enough to remember how wrong we were about TWA Flight 800 being bombed or hit by a missile?)

The collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army helicopter, which claimed 67 lives, may have reached a new low in this department. As Dan McLaughlin pointed out at National Review, people are already blaming Trump administration Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for the disaster just outside of Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C

Let’s start from an archived 2013 version of the Federal Aviation Administration’s website and its “diversity and inclusion” page.

“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.”

Part of this included hiring those with “targeted disabilities”: “Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”


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Fact Check: Yes, Obama and Biden Had FAA Hire People with Intellectual, Psychiatric, Severe Physical Disabilities

Meaningless DEI initiatives are infuriating enough on their own when they prioritize identity over merit in non-critical positions.

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Thanks for this thread, Rose. One of the reasons I believe DEI exists (looking at it from the standpoint of dark strategy) is that if we are a part of a truly evil regime, and our goal is to slowly erode American sovereignty at the very grass roots level, we would not want the best minds to professionally know the difference. We would also want easy prey that owes us. So we can hold over them their underserved jobs we hold the power to. As well, we would want easily led controllable types. So when we tell them do this or that, reason and discernment would be the last thing we would expect from our employees. Kind of like anti-good-employee hire syndrome. How to employ a disaterous America beholden to our whims, while not knowing any better anyways. That is the perfect person for the job--if the goal was to use them in a wide range of projects to destablize a nation. Making the movie "Idiocracy" a very benign version of the above. Blessings.