Comment: Christ, this is as bad as Idiocracy...
The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer "severe intellectual" disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website.
"Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring," the FAA's website states. "They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism."
The initiative is part of the FAA's "Diversity and Inclusion" hiring plan, which claims "diversity is integral to achieving FAA's mission of ensuring safe and efficient travel across our nation and beyond."
The FAA's website shows the agency's guidelines on diversity hiring were last updated on March 23, 2022.
Comment: Well, this development might make one think twice about getting on an air plane. Perhaps that's the point? Only those with enough private resources to hire competent employees will be able to travel.
The deliberate downgrading of competency requirements is affecting more than just the airline industry. The rot is becoming ubiquitous, all in the name of rainbows-and-unicorns 'inclusion':