Yeah, without knowing context, you might think it’s someone admitting that we need gun control, but no, his point was that we shouldn’t care about the gun deaths so much…
Comment on DEI, more like DIED
Zink@programming.dev 2 days agoA conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.
Conservative messaging 101 right there.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 days ago
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 days ago
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dude really had no redeeming qualities.
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
This is a reasonable fear in a world where pilots are hired based on their status of being a minority. Is it not? That was the whole point, DEI practices enforce the ideal that minorities aren’t qualified.
Ghis@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
That’s not how DEI works.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For those who stumble across this and are confused, this isn’t how DEI works.
The reason DEI policies exist is that without them white male bosses were just blindly hiring white males and not considering anybody else because of their racism and sexism (sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious). That meant pilots who weren’t as good, musicians who weren’t as good, bankers who weren’t as good, etc. Aside from this being a guaranteed jobs program for white makes, and a roadblock for everyone else, it also led to problems because when everybody came from the same background, they all had the same kinds of blind spots.
So, DEI policies came along to try to make sure that companies were actually hiring the best people, and not missing out because of entrenched racism and sexism. So, instead of having a concert violinist hand her resume to a committee and then perform for them on stage, the person performing on stage performs behind a screen and uses a number so their age, name, gender, and connections aren’t a factor, just the way they play.
So really, when you see yet another white male airline pilot who looks like he’s former air force, you should be saying to yourself “I sure hope this airline has a DEI policy, and they didn’t just hire yet another guy who was drinking buddies with one of their pilots when they were both in the air force together.”
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
That’s part of DEI, and conveniently not the parts that Kirk, or most conservatives, complain about.
The policies complained about are the one that effectively turn race/gender into qualifications. Like affirmative action. Like IBM working to get 50% female representation in their engineering hires. Like Biden in 2020 campaigning on the promise of hiring a black woman to SCOTUS (2 years before he even looked at candidates). Like Google and other tech companies implementing policies to favor non-asian minorities and women. It’s a form of “diverse sourcing” while making their actual skills and expertise a lower priority than their race/gender.
If that’s not the DEI you support, then the left is awfully quiet about it.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
At least you admit being a racist. Good for you!
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
If you learned that your new surgeon was hired strictly because she’s a white woman, is it racism to be skeptical of her qualifications?
NotForYourStereo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is the type of misinformation that Kirk spread. This is why it’s good that he’s dead.
That’s not what DEI is at all, literally the exact opposite.
Cruel@programming.dev 19 hours ago
If DEI is explicitly taking measures to not consider race/gender in hiring practices, then conservatives would largely support it.
So they’re not racist for opposing DEI, they just don’t understand what it really is, right?
This is the problem in politics when everyone is using the same terms with different meanings. Political discourse devolves into people speaking past each other with absolutely no point.
shane@feddit.nl 1 day ago
A simple DEI policy would be, for example, to remove the name from a resume before passing it over to the hiring manager for initial selection. That reduces bias against ethnic groups, religions, or genders.
This should in no way reduce the qualifications of the candidates. Quite the opposite.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How is this a hard concept? You still have to be a pilot, you just can’t have a policy - tacit or explicit - of only hiring white men.
Couldn’t you have gone with the idea that it’s “taking jobs from white men?” Then I could point out that there isn’t a limited pool of specific unemployed people you have to pick from, and that even if you give a job to a white man it’s still taking a job from a different white man?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lol. Found the dumbass loser.