Fox News quickly scrubbed language from its open job listings showing its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives after media reporter Oliver Darcy asked the network about the contradiction between its corporate embrace of diversity and Fox’s on-air hosts’ demonization of DEI.
Following a deadly midair crash over Washington, D.C., that left 67 people dead, President Donald Trump repeatedly and baselessly blamed DEI hiring initiatives that were supposedly put in place by the Biden administration, claiming that the FAA believed the “workforce was too white” and sought out “people with severe mental disabilities.” The FAA’s hiring policies regarding intellectual disabilities haven’t changed since 2013 – and remained in place during Trump’s first administration.
