Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee gets first-class seat on United ... after passenger bumped to economy

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So ... when your other arguments have failed, resort to the race card?

Do you believe that is effective any more?
Your argument is Race Card inspired.
 
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Rich people arguing over first class seating. Can’t get too worked up about this.

If the woman got her seat taken because she was white it's racial discrimination.
 
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How is 50% of their pilot trainees being women or minorities unfair to white men when the other 50% will be only white men?
You support aggressive affirmative action for Doctors also?

What do you think would be most "fair" for the passengers who trust their lives to those pilots & flight crews?
 
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United institutes aggressive affirmative action for their pilots and flight crews:

Tucker Carlson UNLOADS On United Airlines For New “Woke” Hiring Policy
You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers

Now comes the claim that you can't expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson's mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson's critics. It's being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News's own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.

Just read U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil's opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox's lawyers: The "'general tenor' of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not 'stating actual facts' about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in 'exaggeration' and 'non-literal commentary.' "​
 
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Isn't a bit racist to connect the hiring practices of an airline with a passenger getting bumped to economy because a Black congresswoman was placed in first class?
United Airlines has long been catering to Democratic Party identity socialist ideologies, at the expense of others, for years :)

A --- B
 
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A broken clock is right twice a day:

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If the woman got her seat taken because she was white it's racial discrimination.
Had seat "1A"

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Jean-Marie Simon is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School.

Simon was a Fulbright scholarship and was awarded the Bunting fellowship (Radcliffe/Harvard)...
 
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You support aggressive affirmative action for Doctors also?
If a medical school trains 50% women and minorities to be doctors and 50% white males to be doctors...sure I can support that.
Are you insinuating that women and minorities can't be as proficient, etc. as white males can?
What do you think would be most "fair" for the passengers who trust their lives to those pilots & flight crews?
To have well-trained pilots who are women, minorities, and white males.
If the pilots are well-trained the passengers are just as safe no matter the gender, or race, etc.
I remember when there were just stewardesses serving the passengers then men said that wasn't fair and now there are stewards as well because the airlines did what? They diversified.
 
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United Airlines has long been catering to Democratic Party identity socialist ideologies, at the expense of others, for years :)

A --- B

LOL

Say, how do you rate Delta, American and Southwest?
 
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The aviation sector generally has a long term goal of increasing the number of women and minorities in cockpits. Also in managerial and technical and engineering role.

Less than 5% of commercial cockpit crew globally are women. At commercial airlines, women make up just 1% of actual captains, meaning that the rest are first officers (i.e. second in command). Of those that actually are pilots, women are further under-represented in flying jobs for high capacity jet aircraft (which are the high paying jobs).

United had (pre-coronavirus) a cockpit crew workforce of ~13,500 pilots and FOs. A little more than half its cockpit workforce is due for retirement over the next decade, due to age rules. The airline has a churn rate of about 1000 to 1100 cockpit positions a year.

It will need, at a minimum, 10,000 to 11,000 new pilots in the next decade (likely more).

If women/minorities get 50% of the training slots (which isn't going to happen, for reasons too involved to get into here), that still leaves somewhere from 7500 to 8500 other cockpit crew positions that will be filled by not-women and not-minorities.
 
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