{"id":112306,"date":"2021-04-07T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=112306"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:56:26","slug":"united-airlines-pledges-to-be-racist-and-sexist-in-hiring-practices-for-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112306","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines pledges to be racist and sexist in hiring practices for pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-112307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/United-logo-500x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/United-logo-500x236.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/United-logo-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/United-logo-768x362.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you &#8220;Fly the friendly skies&#8221; with United Airlines, you&#8217;re probably like most people and feel safe in knowing that the pilots of your aircraft are the best and most qualified. Well not anymore. Yesterday, United promised;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our flight deck should reflect the diverse group of people on board our planes every day. That\u2019s why we plan for 50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color. Learn more and apply now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VbOFvFOksB\">https:\/\/t.co\/VbOFvFOksB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r0ScH6MQAJ\">pic.twitter.com\/r0ScH6MQAJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 United Airlines (@united) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/united\/status\/1379426304857141250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about their in-house flight training program at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unitedaviate.com\/aviate-program-career-paths\/united-aviate-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aviate<\/a>. They reiterate there that &#8220;Diversity [is] at the forefront&#8221;. They say they are ;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>continuing to remove gender and racial barriers. And we\u2019re going one step further with plans for 50% of United Aviate Academy students being women and people of color to ensure our students reflect the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>United is saying that they have been both sexist and racist in the past. Clearly the solution is more racism and sexism but reversed. Two wrongs make a right at United. The airline is saying that they will be discriminating against applicants based on their race and\/or gender, both of which are violations of the Civil Rights Act and other legislation.<\/p>\n<p>I want the man, woman, or gender nondescript human behind the flight stick to be the most qualified. Why is that so hard? From those I know within the FAA air traffic control community, this has been the practice for some time now. Don&#8217;t count on your ATC man, woman, or gender nondescript human on the ground to help lead the pilot selected only because of their skin color or sex organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you &#8220;Fly the friendly skies&#8221; with United Airlines, you&#8217;re probably like most people and feel &hellip; <a title=\"United Airlines pledges to be racist and sexist in hiring practices for pilots\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=112306\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United Airlines pledges to be racist and sexist in hiring practices for pilots<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,598,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-get-woke","category-sjw-idiocy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112310,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112306\/revisions\/112310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}