"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.
I'm willing to go on record saying the Trump/Kushner clan is the most universally despised family this country has ever had.
And there's a reason for that. Many reasons, in fact.