Many pilots are afraid to leave unqualified people alone in the cockpit.
BRYANT POND, Maine (PNN) - March 28, 2025 - Veteran airline captain Sherry Walker said the infestation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hiring programs has eroded safety standards so much that some pilots are afraid to take a bathroom break for fear their unqualified co-pilot might crash the plane in their absence.
Walker, who has been a commercial airline pilot for nearly 35 years, made the alarming revelation to Tucker Carlson in a podcast that aired Monday.
Carlson said he doesn’t want a person who espouses irrational propaganda - such as gender is a social construct - flying his plane.
“That’s irrational,” Carlson said. “That’s what freaks me out. It’s irrational. So, if you believe in something so irrational, I don’t want you flying my airplane.”
Walker replied, “I don’t want you flying next to me on that airplane because I have to get up on a 10-hour flight and go take a break or go to the bathroom. How are you going to behave when I am not here?”
She continued, “We (have) pilots that are asking those questions right now. They are saying, ‘I’m not comfortable leaving the flight deck.’”
Walker said pilots are required by law to take a nap during an eight-hour flight, but some are afraid to take mandatory breaks because they are terrified of leaving an unqualified co-pilot alone in the cockpit.
The public outcry against DEI hiring practices that prioritize a candidate’s race, gender or sexual orientation above their qualifications has become a flashpoint amid a series of deadly airline crashes.
It is not unreasonable or bigoted to require that individuals who perform high-skill jobs, such as brain surgery or flying planes, be qualified - because people’s lives are at stake.
The left-wing crusade to sacrifice merit on the altar of “diversity” will not only kill people, but it will destroy civilization.
South African author Rian Malan - a white journalist who fought against apartheid - said the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) will crater into the same anarchy and poverty that infest his homeland if it keeps caving to toxic wokeness.
In his 2021 New York Post commentary, How “equity” ideology plunged South Africa into inequality and chaos, Malan recounted how white guilt destroyed his country.
He said the implosion began when South Africa replaced meritocracy with race-based hiring and slavishly catered to its black population to make amends for apartheid.
“Tendering for government business became increasingly pointless, because contracts were invariably awarded to black-owned firms, even if their prices were double, triple or tenfold,” Malan wrote.
For years, South African companies hired and promoted black workers “whether or not they brought anything to the table besides black skin,” Malan wrote.
He added, “Firms were also required to meet racial quotas in hiring and ensure that management was racially representative, meaning roughly 88% black.”
The eradication of standards for the sake of elevating “equity” decimated South Africa’s economy and led to a breakdown in society, Malan recalled.
“The economy stagnated, causing unemployment to surge to 11.4 million today, from 3.3 million in 1994,” he wrote.
“The upshot: utter misery for the underclass, doomed to sit in tin shacks, half-starved, watching the black elite grow fat on the pickings of equity laws and rampant corruption.”
This is the doomsday scenario the FPSA will face if we continue to bend the knee to destructive virtue-signaling.
DEI hiring practices must end, not only in aviation, but in all industries.
