On June 25, 2021, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14035 to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in the Federal workforce. As I pointed out in a previous column — July 20, 2022 — DEIA is the cornerstone of the woke movement.
DEIA is also a growing part of left-leaning corporations like Boeing. They proudly list on their website, “DiversityInc recognizes Boeing with a No. 12 ranking on its “Top 50 Companies for Diversity,” a four-spot increase from Boeing’s No. 16 ranking in 2022.”
Ahead of Boeing on DiversityInc’s ranking are U.S. Bank, Humana, Abbott, TIAA, Dow, KPMG, Eli Lilly and Company, Toyota North America, The Hershey Company, Medtronic, and, in the top spot, Mastercard.
The DEI theory is that a more diverse company will make a companies products better and its customers happier, making the business better. That’s wrong.
In response to an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft losing a door in a mid-air blowout, billionaire Elon Musk wrote on X last week, “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That is actually happening.”
Referencing the Boeing Corporation, Porter Stansberry, the Chairman and CEO of Marketwise, on Buck Sexton’s podcast last week, explains that “firms that embrace this kind of DEI thing actually perform poorer going forward, in part because their cultures get wrecked. If you’re working with a group of people and suddenly promotions, raises, and bonuses start getting dolled out because of factors other than performance, it has a really shockingly bad impact on the culture. Truly talented people leave and go to work for SpaceX, which is what they’ve done, and the people you get left with are those that are really good with corporate infighting and corporate politics — not necessary good at engineering.”
For example, on Dec. 11, Boeing named Stephanie Pope its Chief Operating Officer. Boeing says, “Pope will oversee the performance of the company’s three business units with responsibility for driving supply chain, quality, manufacturing, and engineering excellence across the company.”
Pope has a degree in accounting from South Western Missouri State and an MBA from Lindenwood University. Pope has no experience or education in engineering.
Why did Pope become the COO of one of America’s most crucial engineering corporations? Maybe it had something to do with her being — as listed on Boeing’s website — “the executive sponsor of Boeing Women Inspiring Leadership, a business resource group dedicated to increasing gender diversity awareness and promoting diverse representation among women.”
If Boeing’s decline in the airline industry does not scare you, this will. The Federal Aviation Administration, under the direction of Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Department of Transportation, is also big into DEI.
On Sunday, a headline on FoxNews.com read, “FAA’s diversity push includes a focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities.”
The Federal Aviation Administration’s website states, “Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring. They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm – a group of health care professionals, medical students, and policymakers working to “protect health care from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” — was quoted in the FoxNews.com story saying identity politics is “creating opportunities for so-called oppressed groups by lowering standards for entry into those fields and thereby endangering the safety of those which it’s designed to serve. Some endeavors simply do not lend themselves to identity politics,” he added.
We have the left — specifically President Biden — to thank for 6.9 million illegal immigrants overrunning our country (and counting), 75.000 deaths due to Fentanyl last year alone, record inflation, restricting our oil and natural gas production, and now putting our lives a risk with DEI.
