In his column “Destroying Meritocracy Is Deadly” at Townhall, Victor Davis Hanson discusses the decline in the aviation industries, both commercial and military, but his
concerns could as easily be about the medical, educational, agricultural, energy and other professions. VDH concludes:
. . . America's security, safety,
prosperity, and postmodern lifestyles are not our birthright.
They are the dividends of centuries
of prior hard work, unfettered freedom of speech, disinterested research, and a
meritocracy.
Tamper with any of that and the
system begins to fall apart.
The United States will then
resemble the miasma we see in most of the world abroad where ideology
suppresses free inquiry, political correctness warps research, and tribalism
trumps meritocracy.
Many of the major airlines have
established racial and gender quotes for government pilot training programs.
United Airlines has set quotas to ensure half of its trainees will be
minorities or women. Since 2013, the FAA has been lowering standards for air traffic
control qualifications to achieve de
facto race and gender quotas.
In testimony before Congress our
top military brass has bragged not of their reduction in standards for
enlistment, but of their "diversity" hiring, as they purportedly
ferret out "white supremacy" and "white rage."
In sum, our government is playing
with our lives as it prefers diversity, equity, and inclusion over ensuring the
best qualified employees are hired on the basis of racially and gender-blind
competitive tests and experience.
Keep it up, and there are going to
be a lot more Afghanistan-style surrenders, Chinese surveillance craft in our
skies, and airline nightmares.
The full column is here.
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