The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh laid bare the perverse logic of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, especially in air travel.
Walsh panned a Federal Aviation Administration Diversity and Inclusion hiring initiative during the Jan. 15 edition of The Matt Walsh Show, arguing for hiring the most qualified people regardless of their race or gender to avoid lowering standards. Walsh said that companies inevitably lower standards when they prioritize getting more of a group of people rather than finding the people with the highest qualifications. Walsh made clear that pursuing diversity equity and inclusion necessarily “means the standards are going down,” dismissing the ideology as “insane on many levels.”
Walsh went on to give free advice to the airlines: the racial or gender makeup of a qualified group of employees is “not a problem…
