Are Diversity Hiring Practices Compromising Safety
Show Notes
What if hiring practices meant to promote diversity are actually putting lives at risk? Today, we bring you a gripping exploration of a tragic accident in Washington, DC, where a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines plane, resulting in the devastating loss of over 60 lives. We dig into the unsettling questions surrounding this disaster. Could the emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in hiring be overshadowing the need for the most qualified individuals in life-critical roles? Are there more qualified candidates being overlooked because of quotas? We'll explore whether the focus on diversity is truly in our best interest or if it's inadvertently setting the stage for catastrophic oversights.
00:00:03.286 --> 00:00:10.445 it is friday and on friday we should be celebrating and on friday we should be raising the toast to the weekend.
00:00:10.445 --> 00:00:17.355 But unfortunately, there are many families including figure skating families, including military that are.
00:00:17.355 --> 00:00:31.611 Unfortunately, they're mourning this week on a tragic accident that happened in washington DC If you did not catch it, unfortunately a Black Hawk helicopter, a military helicopter, collided with an American Airlines plane.
00:00:31.611 --> 00:00:46.212 Over 60 people were killed, no survivors, unfortunately, and as the stories emerged, the question is why was there only one person in the air traffic controller doing multiple jobs?
00:00:46.212 --> 00:00:47.093 Why?
00:00:47.093 --> 00:00:52.409 Why are we not getting the best people to do some of the most difficult jobs?
00:00:52.409 --> 00:01:02.761 And when you start to clear the dust, you realize that the unfortunate thing is we didn't hire for smart, we hired for something else.
00:01:03.603 --> 00:01:05.108 This is the Friday edition of the Rant Network.
00:01:05.108 --> 00:01:06.070 I'm David Solomon.
00:01:06.070 --> 00:01:08.046 That guy is Stuart Briscoe.
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00:01:23.402 --> 00:01:33.563 Okay, as we go through the Autism Pitying's diverse perspectives, we're going to make you think and we're going to actually probably get you very angry today.
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00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:42.852 I'm sick and tired of three letters, stuart, d-e-i.
00:01:42.852 --> 00:01:51.950 I'm sick of hearing it because D-E-I has turned what should have been a good thing into a really bad thing.
00:01:51.950 --> 00:02:01.194 And I'm going to tell you, I know quite a few people who are D-E-I advocates who are screaming it's racist, you are putting us back to Jim Crow.
00:02:01.194 --> 00:02:06.724 You're going on and on and on on all these things, because look at the advancements we made in DEI.
00:02:06.724 --> 00:02:12.883 And then you start to say in the last year, look at all the mistakes and problems that have occurred.
00:02:12.883 --> 00:02:16.431 And are you sure you still believe in this, stuart?
00:02:16.431 --> 00:02:22.332 I don't want to stomp on the deaths of people, but this might have been avoided.
00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:40.991 You know, you have about 67 souls that died in a very tragic, unfortunate accident, and there is no excuse when there is loss of life because of either error or inadequacies in the United States.
00:02:40.991 --> 00:02:54.538 Donald J Trump immediately came out kicking that there are issues with infrastructure in the United States and the hiring practices of DEI have obviously, or likely, played a role.
00:02:54.538 --> 00:03:21.230 Now, without any evidence, the media knocked Trump for mentioning DEI at the post-crash post uh, uh, podium response, yeah, press conference, and the media has been treating this with so much hostility because they're still trying to re-litigate the last election where they were eviscerated.
00:03:21.230 --> 00:03:31.526 You know, in many, in many podcasts I've come out, do you want the second best doctor to do the life-threatening surgery do or die?
00:03:31.526 --> 00:03:36.462 Or do you want the second best because they're of color, race or creed?
00:03:36.462 --> 00:03:45.883 The whole concept of DEI is the basis of discrimination by race, color or creed, and that is not an American.
00:03:45.883 --> 00:03:50.762 In fact, it's not even a Canadian, mexican, north American practice.
00:03:50.762 --> 00:03:54.899 It is something that is beyond disgusting.
00:03:54.899 --> 00:04:05.657 In fact, it's trying to quote, redo what someone else has done wrong, and we have known in the past that that doesn't solve the problem.
00:04:05.657 --> 00:04:14.747 So, whether you listen to Forbes, cbc, cnbc, ctv, npr or whatever channel.
00:04:14.747 --> 00:04:16.994 They are fighting back that.
00:04:16.994 --> 00:04:21.363 No, there's no chance in hell that DEI played any role.
00:04:21.363 --> 00:04:32.322 Well, I hate to tell it to you, if there are thousands of positions open that have not been filled, well, chances are they haven't been filled because of a quota.
00:04:32.322 --> 00:04:34.055 That's the only logical thing.
00:04:34.055 --> 00:04:35.817 Not qualified candidates?
00:04:35.817 --> 00:04:38.199 There's lots of qualified candidates.
00:04:53.490 --> 00:04:57.644 Government and hiring practices and towers are government agencies under the jurisdiction of the US government, which have kept the friendly skies the safest in history.
00:04:57.644 --> 00:05:06.863 But we have yet another problem with avionics today and commercial travel, which has grossly been overlooked.
00:05:06.863 --> 00:05:58.103 And again, these are not necessarily actual numbers, but Reagan National Airport theoretically could handle 17 million passengers a year and they have been stuffing 25 to 35 million people there annually, not to mention the vast amount of utilization that our government uses Reagan one of these movie-type catastrophic incidences in the DC area to protect and continue governance, which is the forefront pillars of the world.
00:05:58.103 --> 00:06:02.670 If the United States is weak, the world is in a peril.
00:06:02.670 --> 00:06:11.281 As much as I love Canada, where I grew up, unfortunately they are not the pillar in the world of safety and security.
00:06:11.281 --> 00:06:24.680 They lend to it, they aid to it, they have a voice in it, but it is the United States that leads this charge, as communist China and Russian lead the axis of evil.
00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.151 They want to dominate and the American way wants to dominate.
00:06:29.151 --> 00:07:00.144 Canadians sort of get a little fick same versus the same of, let's say, china, russia, venezuela, iran, which would be the axis on the other side.
00:07:00.471 --> 00:07:16.036 And instead of denying your differences or focusing on your differences, you should be including your similarities, which goes back to bringing in DEI and the cancer in which Harvard University created in the 60s.
00:07:16.036 --> 00:07:26.812 And you know, david and I actually had a rant I believe it was our first year of ranting where we broke down and challenged people to challenge DEI.
00:07:26.812 --> 00:07:32.122 Listen, is it appropriate to discriminate against race, color, creed?
00:07:32.122 --> 00:07:32.971 Absolutely not.
00:07:32.971 --> 00:07:36.141 Was the 60s a pivotal moment in history?
00:07:36.141 --> 00:07:37.084 Absolutely.
00:07:37.084 --> 00:07:44.841 From Martin Luther King saying I am a man and being completely misrepresented, I am a black man.
00:07:44.841 --> 00:07:56.100 For those Sharptons of the world who are charlatans, who prey on those that are weak-minded and are lamb going to slaughter.
00:07:56.709 --> 00:08:16.122 You know, one thing that's come out of this election being so anti-DEI is the fact that we have recognized that it doesn't work to discriminate against your color, your upbringing or the side of tracks you grew up on is not an American way, it's not a North American way, it's not a Canadian way.
00:08:16.122 --> 00:08:23.500 You know the elites want to be elites and want to push down the middle class.
00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:43.251 They say they don't, but why do they constantly seem to achieve that goal when in the most recent and, david, you brought it up in the green room about Kennedy being sifted and beaten up over the income that he gets from pharmaceutical?
00:08:43.251 --> 00:09:11.964 You know, I challenge any one of you to check any member of the DNC on where their money has come from, whether it's from foreign governments like the Bidens, who have been acquitted before even being charged, or if it's Menendez who's sentenced for the most amount that any member of the government has ever been sentenced to jail and that, to be truly honest with you, may not have been enough.
00:09:11.964 --> 00:09:27.073 It doesn't dissuade the Pelosi's and the Reid's of having funds created based off their trades and the millions and tens and hundreds of millions that these politicians make without breaking a law.
00:09:27.936 --> 00:09:36.277 David DEI, in closing, and from my part of the rant, hasn't provided any good in society.
00:09:36.277 --> 00:09:47.083 It hasn't improved anyone's life except enrich those who profit from divisiveness, not inclusion.
00:09:47.083 --> 00:09:55.581 You know why did the Republican Party take the popular vote, something not done in nearly 60 years.
00:09:55.581 --> 00:09:57.384 Sorry 40 years not done in nearly 60 years.
00:09:57.384 --> 00:10:02.327 Sorry 40 years is, frankly, because we tried it the other way and it didn't work.
00:10:02.327 --> 00:10:10.816 And you know, Donald J Trump picking on Justin Trudeau only exacerbated the problem plaguing Canada.
00:10:10.816 --> 00:10:20.783 Canada is another great nation under attack, trying to be better when in fact they've become worse.
00:10:20.783 --> 00:10:24.235 You know the ideas of Justin's father.
00:10:24.235 --> 00:10:46.807 Pierre Trudeau, though one of the worst prime ministers in history, nowhere's near as bad as his son, and even the French speakingspeaking, angled-mouthed man who was not a lover of all, was one of the biggest racists in power, probably next to the Australian and Irish governments.
00:10:46.807 --> 00:11:07.725 World being an ostrich, not saying the facts, not giving two sides of the story, not being a cronkite when it comes to news is what's destroyed our culture.
00:11:07.745 --> 00:11:12.960 So I'm trying to figure out where Stuart was going with all this, because he now covered every topic in the world.
00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:17.976 Stuart, I just got to tell you that I appreciate your comments.
00:11:17.976 --> 00:11:20.522 I just think you just missed one really critical point here.
00:11:20.522 --> 00:11:28.190 Okay, one critical point, and it's not about Canada and England, it's about mindset.
00:11:28.190 --> 00:11:51.042 The mindset is that, at this moment, young people for the last 20 plus years and I say young people, millennials, gen Z have all been told, while their brains are forming still and I mean we're talking about teenagers and 20-somethings and they're not fully mature and they don't fully get it because they haven't lived yet the life.
00:11:51.042 --> 00:11:52.931 What did they do?
00:11:52.931 --> 00:12:08.006 They learned that we are wrong, that white males are wrong, that we are white supremacists, that we have ruined the lives of everybody who's in that DEI box.
00:12:08.006 --> 00:12:12.761 Now that DEI box is limited to only certain people, right?
00:12:15.337 --> 00:12:23.379 I mean you can't be part of this group unless you agree with this group, and if you disagree with this group, you are excluded.
00:12:23.379 --> 00:12:24.350 So it's.
00:12:24.711 --> 00:12:30.239 You know, someone used the term reverse racism and they said oh no, you can't have reverse racism.
00:12:30.239 --> 00:12:34.265 That doesn't exist Really, really.
00:12:34.265 --> 00:12:38.037 Please explain to me what you're talking about really?
00:12:38.037 --> 00:12:39.559 Please explain to me what you're talking about.
00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:52.897 And so what we're seeing today, my friend is a group of people who are so full of garbage that you said yourself they have created a movement over decades to convince people.
00:12:52.897 --> 00:12:54.259 You and I are wrong.
00:12:54.259 --> 00:12:56.344 You and I are the problem.
00:12:56.344 --> 00:13:01.791 You and I are wrong.
00:13:01.791 --> 00:13:02.493 You and I are the problem.
00:13:02.493 --> 00:13:09.711 And it's not about merit, because if it was about merit, we got an advantage, and if we was about merit, it's because we're white, it's because we're male.
00:13:09.711 --> 00:13:12.395 Now I can't rewrite history.
00:13:12.395 --> 00:13:17.434 I'm not going to go back and say look, most jobs were dominated by men.
00:13:17.434 --> 00:13:18.178 I agree.
00:13:18.178 --> 00:13:25.451 It was only a hundred odd years that we're seeing women really get into the workforce, and a lot of it had to do with the war effort.
00:13:27.053 --> 00:13:33.471 Okay, so it takes time for society to change, but what DEI wants to do is to change the rules in the game.
00:13:33.471 --> 00:13:42.216 The rules are to force you to do things that may not be good for everybody, not for the business, not for society.
00:13:42.216 --> 00:13:57.993 And if, in fact and what Pete Hexeth said and I applaud the new Secretary of Defense was hey, I don't really care who you are If you've got four noses and 18 eyes.
00:13:57.993 --> 00:14:05.240 You know, and that's those are my words I'm going to hire you because you're the best at the job and it's not in more.
00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.655 It's not right to go put people's lives in danger.
00:14:09.655 --> 00:14:19.979 Now I this is a one in a bazillion, they said one in 10 million chances was going to happen and in over the next few months we're going to hear what was really wrong, what was really whatever.
00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:23.423 But people, this is a wake-up call.
00:14:23.423 --> 00:14:43.933 A wake-up call in when you're dealing with people's lives FEMA having the wrong people in place because of DEI, the FBI having the wrong people in place because of DEI, the military having the wrong people in place because of DEI and you're going to say to me no, they're not the wrong people, we're just balancing it out.
00:14:43.933 --> 00:14:45.275 What are you balancing?
00:14:45.275 --> 00:14:48.081 Skin color, really.
00:14:48.081 --> 00:14:49.183 That's the merit.
00:14:49.183 --> 00:14:51.457 Race, race, gender.
00:14:51.457 --> 00:15:03.994 To tell me and to tell everybody that an African-American person only wants to deal with another African-American because they're the only ones who understand, is not naive To me.
00:15:03.994 --> 00:15:07.393 It's just showing bias you are being.
00:15:07.393 --> 00:15:14.277 You're telling me I'm a white supremacist, which is ironic because, as a Jew, I wasn't a white supremacist until 10 minutes ago.
00:15:14.277 --> 00:15:15.360 Well, you're not white.
00:15:16.169 --> 00:15:17.256 We had that debate.
00:15:17.450 --> 00:15:17.941 Forget about that.
00:15:17.941 --> 00:15:18.565 We had this conversation a while ago.
00:15:18.565 --> 00:15:19.143 Well, you're not white.
00:15:19.143 --> 00:15:19.221 We had that debate.
00:15:19.221 --> 00:15:19.755 We had this conversation a while back.
00:15:19.755 --> 00:15:33.770 But to me, stuart and I'll wrap it up with this to look at what's going on in your country, my country, england, france, belgium, and all this wherever DEI was overemphasized decline.
00:15:33.770 --> 00:15:35.335 You see a decline.
00:15:35.335 --> 00:15:41.796 You want to see things go back to where they should be, go back to merit-based and you know what?
00:15:41.796 --> 00:15:44.442 Don't force change because of skin color.
00:15:44.442 --> 00:15:45.912 Start at the beginning.
00:15:45.912 --> 00:15:47.317 You want to make a change, stuart.
00:15:47.317 --> 00:15:49.081 Let's change the education system.
00:15:49.081 --> 00:15:50.832 Let's make it more balanced.
00:15:50.832 --> 00:15:55.481 Okay, and stop complaining about DEI policies.
00:15:55.481 --> 00:16:01.331 We both ranted for a very long time, stuart, so you have any last words you want to share with our, with our?
00:16:01.912 --> 00:16:03.696 viewers have a great weekend.
00:16:03.696 --> 00:16:10.557 We'll be back every Monday, wednesday, friday, noon Eastern, and Dave's going to close up this broadcast while I blast some music.
00:16:10.937 --> 00:16:19.614 Yeah Well, let me just put it this way, stuart, just yeah, anyways on, yeah, anyways.
00:16:19.614 --> 00:16:24.288 On that note, folks, we will be back on monday, so wishing you all a wonderful weekend and uh, let's be on the other side.
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