Jesse Watters says people should be “suspicious” that DEI plays a role in disasters
Watters: “When DEI is in place, which it was at the FAA, standards get lowered, staffing's affected”
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From the January 30, 2025, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Now, we don't know what factor DEI played here, could have been a mechanical issue, could have been medical. They've just recovered one of the black boxes and this investigation's going to tell us the truth. But when DEI is in place, which it was at the FAA, standards get lowered, staffing's affected. And when there's a disaster like this, it makes everyone naturally suspicious.
Late in the Obama-Biden administration, 1,000 well-qualified air traffic control applicants were rejected for not being diverse enough. That caused staffing shortages and the Biden administration was sued for discriminating against qualified white applicants.
The COVID shutdowns didn't help staffing either. They stopped training controllers for two years. How are air traffic controllers not essential workers? I have no idea. And this DEI thing isn't just a race thing. Biden instituted DEI quotas at the FAA in order to recruit workers who were deaf, vision-impaired, missing limbs, completely paralyzed, epileptic, people who were severely intellectually disabled, psychiatrically disabled, and dwarfs.