Forget, ‘no good deed goes unpunished’. More accurately, no corporate wokeness goes unpunished by those taking advantage of it. Affirmative action is one of the worst examples as companies set themselves up for lawsuits like this through their illegal and immoral pursuit of diversity.
A group of 18 former student pilots sued Fort Worth-based American Airlines this week, alleging the company misled them and racially discriminated against them while they were enrolled in a flight training program.
The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Diego by a group of plaintiffs who identify as Black, Asian or Latino accused the airlines of offering them fewer training opportunities than their white peers, grading them harsher, subjecting them to derogatory comments, and putting them on remedial tracks that led them to quit the program. That left several plaintiffs in debt, the suit claims.
The suit also accuses the airlines of “reverse redlining” when it targeted minority groups to enroll in a program they were unlikely to complete and three times more likely to be removed or forced to resign compared to white cadets.
“American targeted racial minorities with deceptive and misleading advertising to entice non-white cadets, including Plaintiffs, to take out massive loans to enroll in the AACA—a predatory program with little likelihood of a successful outcome,” the suit read.
A ‘predatory program’ indeed.
Reverse redlining is an interesting term that racial litigators invented to describe various forms of affirmative action in which lenders and other organizations bent over backwards to provide services to minorities, even though they were unqualified, only to be accused of ‘reverse redlining’ for providing loans to minority borrowers that they couldn’t repay.
Basically it’s Catch 22 and you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t. Don’t provide the loans and you’re a racist, provide the loans and you’re a racist. If your pilots aren’t diverse, your airline is systemically racist, but if you try to aggressively recruit minority pilots, then you’ll be accused of setting them up to fail by recruiting them for a program they would never be able to finish.
But the unreported elephant in the room here is that American Airlines was sued over its DEI programs and using DEI as a basis for promotions. AA backtracked away from recruiting and promoting personnel based on their race and now they’re being sued over it by the DEI crowd. You can guess the likely compromise, which will include a massive payout, and more unqualified pilots.
That can’t end well for the passengers.
