Former Sen. Hawley Staffer Tries to Put El-Sayed on the Spot

what's being questioned/implied.
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

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"If I see a Black pilot, I'm gonna be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'" -- Charlie Kirk

The implication that Blacks aren't as qualified a Whites?
That implication doesn't sound racist, when you're a MAGA.

"Hell, even handling a cucumber or a zucchini could land them in a beating."

Q. What do you call a woman with one black eye?
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A. A good listener.

And if you think that's funny, just try and imagine telling White Christian Americans their joke was imported from Iran!

The kid asking the question... is literally a paid protestor.
And also a Nepo Baby. Since his father is the founder of America Next PAC.

Conservative PAC offering College Republicans $200 to heckle at Abdul El-Sayed rally, group chat messages seem to show
www.michigandaily.com

Finally, it should be noted that "America Next" is a line from the anti-fascist Woody Guthrie "Lindbergh" about the famous American Nazi Charles Lindbergh: "They say America First, but they mean America Next"

Republicans are straight up telling us they are fascists.

You might want to pony up some context.
#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds

"If I see a Black pilot, I'm gonna be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.'"

What context makes this "not racist?"
Was he "JJust Joking" or something?

Contextually, the late Mr. Kirk was talking about Affirmative Action.
Do you believe Affirmative Action results in non-qualified black men being hired to pilot commercial aircraft?
If you believe that, not only are you factually incorrect, you're either a racist, or believe things racists tell you. In your case, probably both, since I'm sure you learned everything you needed to know about which race is superior by the time you were 18, and since then, you've had plenty of examples to prove you are right.

So again, let's see your "context."

context such as if the passenger who thinks "boy, I hope he's qualified" is black?
#25 | Posted by eberly

I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends, and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi...
--Charlie Kirk, "The Jerk"

"There was testimony from Amazon pilots that claim Amazon was throwing softballs to DEI hire pilots"

Yeah. That's the racism all right.

Amazon does not hire pilots. Amazon Air is flown by contract service organizations, one of whom is Atlas Air.

search.brave.com

The controversy surrounding Atlas Air and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) primarily centers on online speculation linking First Officer Conrad Jules Aska to the fatal Atlas Air Flight 3591 crash in 2019. Online forums and social media users frequently labeled Aska a "DEI hire," implying his employment resulted from racial quotas rather than merit.

However, official investigations and factual records refute the notion that he was hired due to DEI initiatives. The NTSB determined that Aska was hired because he lied on his resume and omitted previous employment failures from airlines like Mesa Airlines, CommutAir, and Air Wisconsin. Atlas Air's hiring committee rated him as "highly recommended" based on incomplete records, and the airline explicitly stated it would not have hired him had its incomplete background check systems revealed his true performance history.

The "DEI hire" narrative persists in some online communities as a speculative explanation for his incompetence, but there is no evidence from the NTSB or FAA that race or diversity mandates played a role in his hiring. The crash was attributed to inadequate hiring practices, a failure to detect deception, and a lack of comprehensive pilot record databases, rather than diversity quotas.