DOUGLAS MACKINNON: This land is your land. This land is my land. But its not a DEI land
Recently, I was on an extended business trip across the United States that ultimately touched upon planes, trains, automobiles, ships, bridges and majestic skyscrapers.Along the way, I honestly paused in awe to marvel at modern jetliners; the engines pulling passenger and freight trains cross-country; driverless taxis; four-football-field-long megacruise ships; the George Washington and the Golden Gate bridges; and 60-story-plus office towers in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles.As I pondered them all over the course of the trip, I had two immediate thoughts.
The first being that, in one way or another, those modes of transportation and that stunning and often historic infrastructure all held human life within and upon them.The second was that all were devised and built via meritocracy.DEI, identity politics and woke dictates played no role in their construction.
Nor should they ever, when what is being designed and built will eventually determine the safety of human lives.MEDICAL SCHOOLS ACCUSED OF REBRANDING DEI PROGRAMS TO EVADE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SCRUTINYMy third and overriding thought was: "That’s all about to be thrown out the window once the ‘religion’ of wokeism comes roaring back into play across the spectrum of our lives." If you think otherwise, I most humbly believe you either have not been paying attention to current events or are fooling yourself via the cliché: "Ignorance is bliss."A comet was photographed crossing over the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.(Storyful)To be clear, I don’t care if someone is female, male, Black, White, brown, straight, gay, trans, liberal, conservative, faith-based or an atheist.
If that person happens to be the best person for the job based solely upon merit and real-world experience, they should get it.Period.PETE HEGSETH’S ANTI-DEI SPEECH AT WEST POINT IS A TEMPLATE TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVESBut, if that person is being inserted into the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; the contr...