Right-wingers have convinced themselves that planes are unsafe because of diversity initiatives — and some have sworn off flying altogether

  • Manucode@feddit.deEnglish
    752·
    9 months ago

    and some have sworn off flying altogether

    I gonna take this as a win for the environment

      • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        382·
        9 months ago

        Look at all these airbags and seatbelts they put in, they’re clearly infected by the woke mind virus. And the parking camera is sending your information straight to China. And don’t get me started on the gasoline that’s just an excuse to give our hard earned money to the arab-communist-anti-christmas consortium

        Get around like a REAL american by getting a bicycle, propulsioned by your own legs, like god and the founding fathers intended

        • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          9 months ago

          No, no. You’re giving them too much credit. All it took for the likes of Tim Pool to decry DEI is that the pilot at the time of incident with the door plug was a woman. He wondered aloud if she “pressed the wrong button” and the airline “deleted the flight recordings to cover it up” as if theres some door ejector button on board and as if both boeing and the airline wouldn’t be tripping over themselves to pass the blame off on an incompetent pilot if given even a sliver of an opportunity to do so.

          All Chick-fil-A had to do was hire a VP with DEI in their title. Bud light simply gifted a can to a trans person with their picture on it. Target just sold a modest bathing suit for adults just with a wider gusset and mild binding effect as an ideal option for trans wearers.

          No, all you would need is something like this:

          Just THINK about how many diversity licenses they’re handing out these days!! How many hoodlum thugs and women with no business driving are out there sharing the road with you, just waiting to kill you in an accident? We all know they can’t drive! How many of them got the chance to screw up at the factory where they BUILT your CAR??? Or “fixing” the roads! Everyone knows they don’t build em like they used to and that the roads are crap… and it’s all because of the wokes and their silly DEI!!

          No actual logic or policy required. Bald-faced fear mongering is plenty enough to rile them up. Anything to redirect the blame for societal enshittification to identity politics instead of the obvious conclusions of capitalism falling into an unmitigated death spiral.