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You didn't watch the video from start to finish, did you?

The context was the following:
United wanted to take on a DEI approach. Increasing from the current 15% of black/female pilots to 50%.

Kirk's opinion was that it didn't matter what skin color or gender a pilot is. Every time a DEI or Affirmative Action was introduced, the standard had to be lowered. From my own research, that proved to be true. Ivy league didn't get all the best students, but rather, for black students, only x of GPA was required. For Asian? Y of GPA needed. And X<<<Y. So, a black Ivy league student can be a shitty student vs. their Asian/White counterparts, but it's ok because the school ask for less if you are black.

So, taking this context to the airlines, they are willing to hire a lesser qualified (say a pilot who had flown 100hrs vs one who had flown 6000hrs). Do they meet the bare minimum requirement of FAA? You bet. But in his own example in the video, when it comes to a pilot dealing with severe and rare turbulence in the sky, if you had the option, would you rather trust a 6000hr pilot or a 100hr pilot?

Notice how I purposely left out any skin color or gender here.

So, UA is willing to forgo the idea of finding the best pilot there is, as long as they can meet the quota.

What Kirk was proposing was, get rid of the DEI/AA quota. Just hire the best darn pilots there are. They can be black, indian, Chinese, LGBTQ... whatever, as long as they are the best there are.

Because what's happening here is actually UA purposedly implementing racism into their hiring system. If you ain't black or female, don't count on it as you'd only have 50% of chance of being hired even if you are the best pilot for that aircraft type there is on earth. And the reverse is also true, if you are black or female, doesn't matter if you have little experience or is less experienced of a pilot. As long as you are black or female, you'd have 50% chance of getting hired.