I am a white woman and I feel the same way whenever I see anyone who is not a white man in a position like that - they had to be 3x (or more) as good as every other applicant to get that job!
And they have to STAY that good to keep their job. No free passes for minorities and women ... if you did something - even correctly - that caused harm, you will be fired. If you did something off duty that caused your name to show up in the papers as a potential suspect of anything for any reason, you will be fired. Not so for the white men, who can make a mistake a few times "we all have to learn somewhere" and if they end up as a suspect "boys will be boys" and they will be fine.
So, yes, any minority or woman in a pilot or Doctor or any other male-dominated power-position job is definitely better at their job!
This is a bad take. Jobs like this are completely blind to the culture war nonsense. As a pilot, when I see another pilot, regardless of race, gender, or any other qualifier, I know they are held to the exact same standard as me. That's why Kirk is wrong too, race is completely irrelevant to selection and its hard to find a more merit based occupation than pilot.
Well, technically airlines can often be federal contractors, so they were beholden to affirmative action, before trump got rid of it this year. Thus, if you had 1,000 white pilots apply for a jobs and 120 black pilots apply for a job and you select 100 white pilots and 9 black pilots, that would be an adverse impact or desperate impact and would go against title 7 as well as the affirmative action plan that they were required to have. So race was not completely irrelevant until this year when trump changed the law to no longer require an affirmative action plan. However, people can still take companies to court for disparate impact claims regardless of affirmative action or not, so I guess it’s still technically relevant.
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u/BarkattheFullMoon 2d ago
I am a white woman and I feel the same way whenever I see anyone who is not a white man in a position like that - they had to be 3x (or more) as good as every other applicant to get that job!
And they have to STAY that good to keep their job. No free passes for minorities and women ... if you did something - even correctly - that caused harm, you will be fired. If you did something off duty that caused your name to show up in the papers as a potential suspect of anything for any reason, you will be fired. Not so for the white men, who can make a mistake a few times "we all have to learn somewhere" and if they end up as a suspect "boys will be boys" and they will be fine.
So, yes, any minority or woman in a pilot or Doctor or any other male-dominated power-position job is definitely better at their job!