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Boeing, once the titan of aerospace manufacturing and the world’s fourth-largest defense contractor, is now cratering before our very eyes. They’ve fully embraced the globalist progressive agenda, making Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) the foundation of their operations, a strategy that’s undoubtedly contributing to the company’s internal collapse. Boreing is following in the footsteps of other players in the airline industry and has prioritized DEI over safety, siding with the Biden regime’s twisted belief that “charity” somehow outweighs genuine skill and expertise. Tragically, this failed approach is obvious from a laundry list of alarming and dangerous failures, placing the disgraced company into a spotlight it never wanted.

Nobody’s been shining a spotlight on Boeing and the airline industry’s risky dive into DEI standards quite like Revolver has. And today, with a major shakeup unfolding at the top of Boeing, we at Revolver are hitting the track for a massive victory lap. We’ve been on the front lines of this story, relentlessly critiquing the industry for trading safety for “woke points,” and it looks like our persistence is paying off.

Revolver has been on the front lines of this unsettling issue, targeting everything from individual airlines, personnel, and CEOs to Boeing itself. Our comprehensive approach has helped shed a glaring light on these troubling and dangerous industry shifts we’ve seen.

Revolver:

The aggressive substitution of merit in favor of diversity has led to a so-called competency crisis, jeopardizing not only our ability to generate innovative technology but, in a more dire sense, our ability to simply maintain the proper functioning of various complex systems vital to our existence as a first-world civilization. Despite the superficiality of “diversity” as a matter of rhetoric, the reality of diversity as an ideological, cultural, and legal imperative is not merely cosmetic—far from it.

While a full treatment of this topic would run far outside the scope of this article, we have discussed elsewhere the manner and extent to which the affirmative action regime is embedded deeply into the law, economy, and every major institution in the country.

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We can trace this decline directly to new hiring policies implemented by the Obama administration. In 2012, three years before Obama put policies to increase diversity in air traffic control into effect, the FAA released an unclassified report titled, “Development, Validation, and Fairness of Biographical Data Questionnaire for the Air Traffic Control Specialist Occupation.” The report explicitly recommends the use of biographical data, or “biodata”—personal  information about applicants—in place of the blind method of measuring competency to promote racial equality. Of their key findings, one is especially instructive:

From a test fairness perspective, biodata yielded nearly identical mean scores across gender and ethnicity scores that were well below differences typically found for tests of general mental ability.

You can read the entire, deep dive into the crumbling airline industry below:

Crash Landing: The Inside Scoop About How Covid and Affirmative Action Policy Gutted Aviation Safety

Darren Beattie of Revolver, teaming up with Richard Hanania, dove deep into the sea of wokeness. They embarked on a mission to unravel how so many of our nation’s cherished institutions have fallen prey to this skewed agenda.

Darren:

Delighted to share this conversation on the “Origins of Woke” between me and Richard Hanania on X

Despite the fact that references to “wokeness” seemingly everywhere in our political discourse, precious little attention given to what it actually is, and still less to its origins.

Until recently the dominant account for wokeness invoked the influence of European import philosophies (marxism, post-modernism, etc).

By contrast, Hanania’s account of wokeness traces its development within the context and peculiarities of American law, and particularly within certain innovations of civil rights law.

Our conversation critically engages this thesis, touching upon disparate impact law, Title IX, and other forms of affirmative action.

We also touch upon broader questions surrounding wokeness and Hanania’s thesis.

To what extent is “wokeness” a fundamentally feminine phenomenon–a poisonous synergy of feminine political id liberated at scale by social media?

To what extent is some version of wokeness inevitable in a diverse society? Is it possible that every diverse society requires some kind of patronage politics and that wokness is simply how this is expressed in the Anglosphere?

For this and more, watch below.

Hope you enjoy the convo.

RELATED: How Did Every Institution Get Woke? A Deep Dive With Richard Hanania

How does a company plummet from the peak of excellence to becoming a dangerous laughingstock in no time? Simple. All you have to do is overhaul your entire hiring process to center on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, sidelining merit and skill, and watch how quickly the scandals, dangers, and disasters fall into place.

The answer to this question is yes.

Revolver hit the nail on the head, pointing out how we’ve swapped out our top players for benchwarmers:

American aircraft keep nearly running into each other, while scheduled flights are canceled at rates far above the pre-Covid norm, even when there are no weather reasons for it at all. From 1980 to 2015, violations of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act more than doubled. In San Francisco last summer, the on-time rate for BART trains dropped to less than two-thirds, putting BART in its worst situation in decades (hope their $190k/year senior social justice manager has some ideas!).

Oh, and there’s the whole freight train derailment thing. You probably saw something in the news about that.

Before our eyes, Revolver’s warning of two years ago is coming to pass.

In the years to come, American infrastructure will fail more and more often, as America becomes less capable of maintaining the core elements of a First World country.

Why would America become less First World? That’s a simple question to answer: Because America is making itself less First World.

Read the Rest: Texas’s Power Grid Disaster Is Only the Beginning

Americans have gotten used to hearing complaints about the country’s “failing infrastructure.” This has typically centered on the most straightforward, easily understood infrastructure: Bridges, highways, subway tunnels and the like. And, yeah, sometimes there’s a lot to be desired there.

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But infrastructure isn’t just the existence of physical assets. It’s also how well they are used: How quickly is damage fixed? How well-made are they in the first place? How well do they avoid accidents or systematic screw-ups?

At its bedrock, infrastructure is substantially just people: a population of workers with the expertise and experience to keep a complex system functional, reliable, and accident-free. Decline in this infrastructure — the human infrastructure — may be papered over with improved technology and automation. But when problems do arise, it is impossible to miss the decay.

RELATED: America Lost the Hardworking Men Who Held Her Together, and Now She’s Crumbling

Author Charles Wing-Uexküll also wrote extensively about how the DEI disaster unfolding at Boeing goes even beyond DEI:

I wrote about Boeing for IM-1776.

My theory of the company’s decline is that the outsourcing & focus on DEI are effects of a more fundamental cause:

the company abandoned its historical practice of giving extraordinary individual men near-dictatorial control over complex projects.

Today, Boeing diffuses authority, cost, & accountability, & has lost the ability to resolve crises & innovate.

Here’s a blip of what Charles wrote in his fascinating piece.

IM 1776:

Today, Boeing lacks this commitment to pushing the technological envelope as well as any sense of urgency with regard to the national interest: in this respect it still represents a mirror of America, only now it is a mirror of decline. The history of Boeing over the past thirty years is a story of a critical American institution that sold off its engineering culture and embraced an asset-light focus on margin instead of product vision, and then executed that strategy poorly. In 2024, Boeing is producing fewer planes than it did a decade ago and faces an onslaught of headlines about spectacular accidents, nagging regulators, and disappointing earnings.

A large part of the issues can be traced back to the Boeing-McDonnell Douglas merger in 1997. The deal seemed like a good idea at the time. By 1996, McDonnell Douglas commanded only 4% share in U.S. commercial aviation, and its production lines were languishing. Meanwhile, Boeing had a $100 billion backlog, and needed more assembly capacity to ramp deliveries and fulfill its orders. Yet in the event, the joke on Wall Street became that “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money.” McDonnell Douglas CEO Harry Stonecipher and John McDonnell, the chair of McDonnell Douglas’ board, became the largest shareholders of the combined entity after a stock swap worth $13 billion and they brought McDonnell Douglas’ bureaucratic defense contractor culture of margin-focused, risk-averse financial engineering with them.

This culture almost immediately began to win out over Boeing’s engineering culture committed to innovation and quality. The first “clean-sheet” aircraft produced by the combined entity would be the 787 Dreamliner. From the start of the project in 2003 Stonecipher imposed strict cost controls, demanding that the plane be developed for less than 40% of what it cost Boeing to develop the 777 more than a decade before. He also required each plane’s unit cost to be less than 60% of the cost of a 777. Boeing would accomplish this, Stonecipher said, by abandoning full-fledged, bottoms-up assembly. Instead, for the first time, workers in Boeing’s Everett plant would connect sub-assemblies and integrate disparate systems provided by suppliers rather than attaching every bolt and component themselves.

And now, thanks to Revolver and the collective voice of many patriots calling out Boeing’s dangerous DEI policies that prioritize “charity” over excellence, we’re seeing a significant shake-up at the top, and that could mean the beginning of the end of the diabolical DEI agenda that is dumbing down America at warp speed.

The fragile house of cards at Boeing is starting to collapse, and the timing couldn’t be better, as the spotlight is on DEI practices in this country.

CNN:

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year in a major shakeup of the company’s leadership. Boeing’s chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving.

Boeing’s chairman, Larry Kellner, will not stand for re-election as a board director. The board has elected former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf to succeed him.

The company also announced that Stan Deal, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is retiring. Stephanie Pope, Boeing’s chief operating officer since January, is taking his place effective immediately.

Boeing has been buffeted by more than five years of problems with its airplanes, including two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, and most recently a door plug that blew out of the side of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. The problems have led to multiple groundings for safety issues and more than $31 billion in cumulative losses.

In a letter to Boeing employees Monday, Calhoun called the Alaska Airlines incident “a watershed moment for Boeing.”

“The eyes of the world are on us,” he said in announcing his departure plans. “We are going to fix what isn’t working, and we are going to get our company back on the track towards recovery and stability.”

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The mainstream media, once again, in a desperate attempt to circle the wagons for any company shilling the progressive agenda, tried to paint right-wing reporting against DEI and the airline industry as hysterical racism, conspiracy theories, and fake news.

 

Once again, they missed the mark, and this shakeup, coupled with what’s plain for us all to see, proves it.

That meme underscores the harsh reality of where we’re at in Joe Biden’s failed America.

While the situation with Boeing and the shift towards DEI is no laughing matter, Revolver decided to wade into satirical waters and came out with a piece that combines humor with critique. We published a popular satirical article on Boeing and Gaza protesters that’s bound to get a chuckle out of you. It’s a creative way to address serious issues, and you’ll probably find it both amusing and ironic:

Gaza Supporters Vow to Fly Only Boeing Until They Die or Palestine Is Free

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