▪️When I saw this meme I instantly knew it was false. But was curious how the dazzling minds at Feminist News came to this conclusion. Turns out they actually linked to a news story in the comments, which quoted an FAA report saying, “one air traffic controller was doing the work normally assigned to two people”
▪️Feminist News misunderstood this to mean there was only one controller in the tower, which was most certainly not the case.
▪️Anyone familiar with aviation knows that controllers frequently take on multiple frequencies or jobs. Often clearance delivery will also be ground control, sometimes one controller will even handle everything; tower, ground and clearance, depending on workload. This is nothing new or remarkable, and it does NOT mean there’s only one person in the tower, certainly not in an airport like Reagan.
▪️Whether or not this was a factor in the accident remains to be seen. From this report it’s not even clear which controller they were referring to (was it tower or ground?) Generally, controllers are quite competent and can handle working two jobs. Listening to the ATC audio before the crash they didn’t sound particularly overwhelmed or rushed.
▪️From what I can tell, the controller asked if the helicopter had the CRJ in sight, they said yes, and were told to maintain visual separation with the CRJ. It’s likely they confused it with another aircraft, or lost visual, and that lead to the tragedy. So many (who know nothing) are trying to come up with alternate theories that align with their politics.
Some more background on why Trump’s executive order rescinding affirmative action was so massive.
▪️The Civil Rights Act never defined discrimination. So when Johnson issued EO 11246 prohibiting discrimination among certain govt contractors, what did that mean? Not a whole lot at the time, but that quickly changed.
▪️At the time the Civil Rights Act was passed, discrimination was widely thought to be the purposeful exclusion (or inclusion) based on race. Over time, the courts and govt bureaucrats interpreted discrimination to mean disparate impact, which is how “woke” ideology snuck in and took over.
▪️No longer did discrimination have to do with an employer’s intent. Any hiring practices or decisions that appeared to benefit one group or disadvantage another was deemed discriminatory. After all, one key tenet in woke ideology is that if a minority group isn’t sufficiently represented it’s because of discrimination/racism.
▪️This is why IQ and other aptitude tests all but...
Most don’t realize that the core of DEI and much of the nonsense in every HR department can be traced back to this EO from the ‘70s. It seemed innocuous at the time, saying govt contractors couldn’t discriminate, but later interpretations broadened that to mean every govt contractor had to obsess over the race and gender of their employees to prove they weren’t “discriminating.”
Thus, they all had to keep records of their employee demographics, and show they were getting more “representative” of the overall population, which in practice meant affirmative action and race and gender quotas. If your company demographics didn’t improve, you’d be open to lawsuits and losing govt contracts. Ironically, the govt couldn’t explicitly mandate quotas, but this was a backdoor way of doing so.
While it only applied to govt contractors, the reality is 1/3 of Fortune 500 companies are considered govt contractors, as are 1/4 of all employees! Google is a govt contractor. Even if a ...
