Conservatives Are So Scared of Diversity They’re Starting to Boycott ‘Woke’ Airlines
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Right-wingers have convinced themselves that planes are unsafe because of diversity initiatives — and some have sworn off flying altogether
Cool, I hope they all do this
Not really...
This isn't something Billy Bob decided on his own.
He's being told not to fly because the conservative talking heads don't want him to leave his flyover state and see what the rest of the country is like
They want him isolated and scared, because those people keep voting Republican without questioning what they're told.
If he visited a "blue state" or any average sized city, he might realize he's being lied to about what they're like.
They want them stuck in their red state where they'll keep their two senators and House reps
This is why they hate college. Isolated students who were sheltered by their conservative parents are forced to mix with people who are different from them… and the students realize the differences that they were taught to be afraid of don’t really matter. They start to think for themselves.
Independent thought is what scares conservatives the most.
It's hard now, though, because they're saying the military is too "woke" now, too! But without a steady influx of Good Ol' Boys how do we continue to justify our defense budget?
You can't be pro military and anti-woke, a lot of the aforementioned Good Ol' Boys have the same experience as the ones who go to college: they're exposed to minorities and realize the lies aren't true. How do you keep bodies going in while telling them not to go in because it's too "woke"?
I can’t even pretend to try to shed a fake tear.
This is also why they hate Tiktok. Too easy to see what everyone else in the normal world is doing.
Yep, it's easy to be mad at them because they're hateful people
But we'll never out hate conservatives. If we try we're doing exactly what the people telling them what to think want.
It's like with prisoners, we focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. And it works out horribly.
If we actually want to fix America (and it sure as shit looks like we're running out of time) we need to focus on what works best, not what feels best.
Like that Black dude who's gotten over 100 KKK members to renounce their racist ways. He doesn't yell at them, he talks to them and wears them down.
It's not easy, and it's more than they deserve, but it works.
And if something works, than that's what we should be doing.
The first step is getting them out of their bubble.
eh, there's pretty of reasons to hate TikTok.
False. Reds have already decided what the experience is like before visiting large cities and as we all know there is no changing how they feel because it isnt based on logic.
I hear all the time about them needing to carry guns go visit the nearby city because it's so dangerous.
I gonna take this as a win for the environment
Now we just need to convince them that cars are unsafe due to wokeness.
Look at all these airbags and seatbelts they put in, they're clearly infected by the woke mind virus. And the parking camera is sending your information straight to China. And don't get me started on the gasoline that's just an excuse to give our hard earned money to the arab-communist-anti-christmas consortium
Get around like a REAL american by getting a bicycle, propulsioned by your own legs, like god and the founding fathers intended
No, no. You're giving them too much credit. All it took for the likes of Tim Pool to decry DEI is that the pilot at the time of incident with the door plug was a woman. He wondered aloud if she "pressed the wrong button" and the airline "deleted the flight recordings to cover it up" as if theres some door ejector button on board and as if both boeing and the airline wouldn't be tripping over themselves to pass the blame off on an incompetent pilot if given even a sliver of an opportunity to do so.
All Chick-fil-A had to do was hire a VP with DEI in their title. Bud light simply gifted a can to a trans person with their picture on it. Target just sold a modest bathing suit for adults just with a wider gusset and mild binding effect as an ideal option for trans wearers.
No, all you would need is something like this:
No actual logic or policy required. Bald-faced fear mongering is plenty enough to rile them up. Anything to redirect the blame for societal enshittification to identity politics instead of the obvious conclusions of capitalism falling into an unmitigated death spiral.
We could probably fine tune an LLM to handle that tbh, if you can't beat em, join em lmao
Oh man I hear there's insanely good money in right-wing grifting
Relevant: “WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE A BIKE!?!?!?“
The dust that comes free after an airbag deployment makes you trisexual.
https://youtu.be/5KD4Ct2WZUI
They’re probably taking the car, which is way worse
Bubba doesn't fly much anyway.
Well played, Rolling Stone.
After years of research, I have come up with a complete list of every conceivable action a company can take that leads a to a conservative boycott:
This just in, that's actually been downgraded to:
Treat people with the absolute bare minimum of decency, or appearance of decency.
Wait, so if I book on a "woke" airline I'll be less likely to sit beside asshole racist idiots? This just keeps getting better!
And hopefully the non-woke airlines are still flying their MAX 9s...
Maybe they can be convinced to support upgrading rail to be a more viable competitor to flying, then? 🥺
But they won't want to build the infrastructure! And if they force black people and Mexicans to build it they'll simultaneously scream "woke agenda taking our jobs" and "look, look how nice we are allowing these underprivileged people work grueling hours for next to no pay!"
And besides, it's not up to us to fund the upgrading! You do it!
Man you nailed every possible Schrodinger's scapegoat there.
I wish they’d just avoid planes with left wings altogether.
Boeing might be able to help with that.
I welcome conservatives taking fewer flights. If anything that will mean less demand for plane tickets and theoretically cheaper fares over time.
Oh no! Then who will tell me that I should "go back to where I came from " and then make fun of my mixed kids?
The best answer to that question is, "Wait, you mean Kansas City?"
....I'll be your huckleberry?
I welcome anything that lowers fossil fuel use.
Plus more people masked up on board.
Air travel is one of those weird industries where less demand equals higher prices.
Noticed when it's right-wingers doing it in real life it's a "boycott" but when it happens in their collective imaginations it's "cancel culture"?
As a normal person I fully support "conservatives" staying away from the resources I use.
Btw elections are inclusive and therefore woke.
I wish they'd hurry up and become a death cult
Just need to convince them that life is woke!
Being awake is woke by definition
They already are. They worship the death of their God, ignoring all the stuff he said to do while he was alive. They won't engage in any common sense gun control. They worship the military while they're engaged in killing people, and then they demand those people continue to sacrifice their lives by underfunding and cutting benefits at the VA. They force births, but only to feed the machine with those bodies - once the kids are born, they try to stop them from receiving any benefits like food, medicine, or education - in large part to force them into the military or prisons where they can be controlled and used up.
It's worse because they are a suicidal death cult.
They wish to bring about their version of the end of the world and are doing everything they can to make it happen. All the while, they are dragging the rest of the world down with them.
Kamikaze death cult.
Bubba didnt fly much anyway.
Right? “I’ll never fly with that airline!” isn’t much of a threat when it’s coming from someone who’s never been more than fifteen miles from where they were born.
couldn't afford the extra ticket he would have to buy to cover his weight anyway.
We need to bring back TWA. A whole airline just to give them nightmares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA
We need to bring back ValuJet. A whole airline just for politicians to use. 👍
It’s not “scared of diversity”; diversity is just the dog-whistle. Their ideology demands unconditional support for people who are “on their team” and punishment (economic and otherwise) for people who aren’t. Airlines aren’t willing to cooperate with performative anti-leftism, so they’re the enemy now. Same with Truth Social being the only acceptable social media, or Alex Jones Brand Patriot Coffee / Beer / Whatever. The true believers are tribing themselves up.
Wake me when they start boycotting air.
Can conservatives start to boycott breathing oxygen? Rumor has it the O2 might be woke...
It's only a matter of time until Fox News and some fringe YouTubers start pushing Patriot Air ™
Trans people breathe O2. That's all the info Jim-Bob needs!
First, it was 'cultural Marxism' then 'SJWs' and now 'woke.' Could they get any more fucking lame with their dog whistles?
There's a better word to describe people that are "scared of diversity": racist. Or "bigoted", in a broader sense.
Yesterday I opened a box of fruit loops. I found myself wondering when conservatives would say they were too woke because of the rainbow colors.
The airlines should offer a compromise, like putting all minorities at the back of the plane. /s
The minority being the conservatives, of course. The "silent majority" turned out to be a screaming minority
Wait until they hear about how diverse our highways are.
Sweet, more power to them. Fuck off, conservatives.
They really love cancel culture. Ya know, what they claim to hate. Throw their stupid buzzwords back right into their face.
Every accusation is a confession.
I've seen this on Facebook. Now and then Facebook will show me a page that follows the investigations into these issues, and if I scroll through the comments, I'll often see, "This is because of DEI!"
On a related note, I'm always amused that people are extremely personally invested in either Boeing or Airbus, as though their next personal jet airliner would never be of the other brand. Kind of like how some people are very loyal to their brand of car and fanboy the hell out of that brand. It just feels like more tribalism to me.
You have to pick a sports team, a beer, a truck, and a plane. That's your identity. But only two genders are allowed.
I'm an airline pilot and it's funny how many people I work with that tell me they don't want to move on to work with United and Delta because they have gone "woke". United and Delta have always had the best pay and benefits and I've been shocked to see how many people put their own bigotry and racism before working for a company that will give you the best quality of life and pay.
These are the people who have made it their political identity to vote against their own interests, so it shouldn't be surprising.
It'll be awesome when they have to drive everywhere and stick mostly to their own states.
Airlines aren't woke, they're too greedy. You can't be woke if you're a union buster
That’s great news!
Hmm probably nothing to do with their boeing stock or defence contracts
Woke as a trend, needs to die.
How do you mean?
The word, probably
It’s no surprise that zero of the comments here are willing to address the problem that is the conflict between two different type of hiring criteria.
Because it's not. You have a lot of strict rules and profiles in professional aviation, a person that does not conform to these standards will not be considered at all. This does not means that race and gender have no effect in the hiring process, in the past two person with the same skillset, one man and other woman, the man would be chosen, this is the only thing that these companies are trying to switch.
Chosen*
choosed is the wrong conjugation for this particular case
Yeah assuming two people with the same skill set, you can choose on any basis you want without losing out on skill.
Trouble is, real life doesn’t have people with equal skill sets. In reality, one of them is more qualified than the other. One of them is the better candidate.
Yeah, and white men are not the best suitable for everything, this is exactly the point of all the discussion you are missing.
I’m sure you’ve heard of straw men before. The claim here is not, has never been, and you know it, that white men are always the best qualified.
The claim is that the best qualified is a dimension independent of sex or race, and that if you optimize on those dimensions, you deliberately step away from optimizing on the dimension of job qualification.
Lol, you are exactly the one that is fighting a strawman, no company has said and no one should start recruiting only because gender or race, you are implying it. What they are trying to do is exactly recruit without gender bias, and you, for some reason cannot accept this and keep fighting alone.
What has been stated, that I am responding to, is that a certain percentage of hires must be of certain demographics.
If you’d like I can source that for you. Would you like to see a source?
I would love to see the source. The only one I can find is a CEO saying they WANT 50% of the hires to be from certain demografics, and could not find anyone saying it must be no matter what.
lol you don’t need the source then. That’s exactly the one I’m referring to.
If you’re saying this isn’t an actual policy, that’s correct. But it is a CEO expressing it publicly, which does carry weight. CEOs to control corporate policy, after all.
So if the corporate policy is targeted at something like “50% coming from X demographic”, it’s going to affect hiring and promoting behavior. And the problem I’m referring to exists.
It sounds like you’d want to make a point that a CEO saying such things isn’t connected with such things actually happening, and I don’t think that makes sense.