Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino blasted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as a huge liability for American businesses.
Gasparino went after companies like Delta Airlines and Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch for making choices that alienate ordinary Americans during the Aug 10 edition of FOX and Friends Saturday. Gasparino told co-hosts Pete Hegeseth, Rachel Campos-Duffey and Will Cain that “the American consumer has rejected wokeness.” Gasparino said that the “American people hate this stuff,” but warned that there were far more serious consequences to wokeness and DEI than language policing and ads depicting men pretending to be women.
Gasparino, who recently published a book on DEI titled “Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America,” claimed that the tide was turning among American consumers. Gasparino noted “the rebellion” against things like Disney pushing LGBT propaganda and BlackRock pressuring companies to embrace ESG. “People are running away from this,” he said.
“If you're gonna apply [DEI] strictly across all jobs at Delta, well then you're going to get airline pilots that are picked not necessarily for their skill, but based on their racial or their gender classification,” Gasparino said. “It's a scary thing.”
During the segment, Fox and Friends Saturday played a clip of Delta Chief DEI & Social Impact Officer Keyra Lynn Johnson complaining about the use of “ladies and gentlemen” in announcements to passengers. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby similarly revealed that he wholeheartedly embraced DEI when he committed to racial and gender discrimination in hiring during an Axios interview.
DEI initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have had serious consequences, including depriving people of opportunities based on their race. The Mountain States Legal Foundation is currently suing the FAA for racial discrimination. Additionally, near-miss air collisions have risen 63% during the DEI-obsessed Biden administration’s time managing the Federal Aviation Administration.
It’s good to hear that the people who make sure that giant flying tubes traveling at hundreds of miles per hour don’t crash into each other have their priorities in order.
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