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The undisputed facts at hand are: * The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants. * The answers to this questionnaire w
by Manuel_D 2y ago
The undisputed facts at hand are:
* The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants.
* The answers to this questionnaire were distributed to members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees.
* Members were explicitly told not to distribute the answers to other people, to reduce competition for admission.
This is as bad a scandal as though the answers to the SAT were leaked.
- motorest 2y ago> I'm... totally at a loss as to you you can get this takeaway from this piece. The undisputed facts at hand are: This is exactly the kind of one-sided nitpicking I pointed out. You purposely decided to omit the fact that the "biological questionaire" was in fact a change in the way applicants were evaluated, which eliminated the privilege of an in-group to avoid to compete with "walk-ons", i.e., anyone outside of the privileged group. At best you're trying to dismiss the sheer existence of such an evaluation process by putting up strawmen over the implementation of this evaluation.
- cakealert 2y ago[flagged]
- motorest 2y ago[flagged]
- cakealert 2y ago> You purposely decided to omit the fact that the "biological questionaire" was in fact a change in the way applicants were evaluated > * The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants. ??? > which eliminated the privilege of an in-group to avoid to compete with "walk-ons", i.e., anyone outside of the privileged group > The answers to this questionnaire were distributed to members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees. ??????
- LightHugger 2y agoIs "eliminated the privilege of" some kind of dogwhistle for being racist against white people? You're intentionally using circuitous language but that appears to be the message. People are individual human beings, discrimination on the basis of skin color is evil. Not sure why this is so hard to understand for some people.
- theossuary 2y ago[flagged]
- Manuel_D 2y agoBut "having their privilege taken away" is a vastly different thing than "answers to a multiple choice test are leaked to an ethnic affinity group". Furthermore, this also negatives impacted Latin and Asian people. And also Black people that weren't part of the aforementioned affinity group.
- theossuary 2y agoI simply responded to the above comment saying eliminating the privilege of white people is a dogwhistle for being racist against white people. It's not. I said nothing about the post, and don't know why you're bringing it up. Please try to keep context in mind so you don't make halfbaked statements.
- caspper69 2y agoIt’s not? How non-racist of you (and non-presumptuous) to “eliminate someone’s privilege” based solely on the color of their skin. You do know there are poor and disadvantaged white people too, right? You might even be surprised that they outnumber black people. And shame on you for even thinking you have the right to make such a call, or even entertain such a notion. Talk about privilege.
- theossuary 2y ago
- albedoa 2y ago> You purposely decided to omit the fact that the "biological questionaire" was in fact a change in the way applicants were evaluated Man, you are now losing audiences that are sympathetic to your position. Are you accusing Manuel_D of edit-sniping you? Or are you claiming that the comment as it is currently written omits the above fact?
- Manuel_D 2y agoFor transparency, yes, I did remove that first sentence a few minutes after posting (but before the reply was posted). I felt it was too harsh in tone. I don't remember changing "biological" to "bigraphical"