This article is a good representation of left wing news outlets being no better than right wing news outlets.
The dishonesty, the partisanship, the gleeful reporting about "bad/stupid" people having misfortune...
Honestly, this is the kind of article I'd expect to be published on Breitbart, except that it's left wing instead of right wing.
(Using colloquial language anyway. There's nothing actually "left wing" in a meaningful sense about this article. It's just the label for the side of tribalism that The Guardian chose.)
Prime example of dishonesty:
The comment about black pilots was about DEI policies.
If there's a policy saying 20% of pilots an airline hires must be black (e.g. self imposed by the company to seem progressive) and they're looking to hire 100 pilots, but for whatever reason only 5 of the top 100 applicants are black (e.g. due to ongoing disadvantages faced by black Americans) then it's a simple mathematical fact that the airline will have to reach for candidates beyond the top 100 most qualified applicants.
There will be a higher mathematical possibility that a much less qualified person will get the job. If there is a dearth of black applicants, the airline may even need to "scrape the bottom of the barrel" to reach their quota.
Anyone who spent more than 2 minutes debating or reading about this topic knows that this is the most basic form of anti-DEI argument, and anyone who bothers to spend more than 2 minutes on Google will easily find out that this was the context of Charlie Kirk's "racist" comment about pilots.
But none of it matters. Because mainstream "left wing" outlets are as anti-intellectual and dishonest as right wing rags.
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