Cool, I hope they all do this
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And that’s basically it!
and some have sworn off flying altogether
I gonna take this as a win for the environment
Now we just need to convince them that cars are unsafe due to wokeness.
Look at all these airbags and seatbelts they put in, they're clearly infected by the woke mind virus. And the parking camera is sending your information straight to China. And don't get me started on the gasoline that's just an excuse to give our hard earned money to the arab-communist-anti-christmas consortium
Get around like a REAL american by getting a bicycle, propulsioned by your own legs, like god and the founding fathers intended
No, no. You're giving them too much credit. All it took for the likes of Tim Pool to decry DEI is that the pilot at the time of incident with the door plug was a woman. He wondered aloud if she "pressed the wrong button" and the airline "deleted the flight recordings to cover it up" as if theres some door ejector button on board and as if both boeing and the airline wouldn't be tripping over themselves to pass the blame off on an incompetent pilot if given even a sliver of an opportunity to do so.
All Chick-fil-A had to do was hire a VP with DEI in their title. Bud light simply gifted a can to a trans person with their picture on it. Target just sold a modest bathing suit for adults just with a wider gusset and mild binding effect as an ideal option for trans wearers.
No, all you would need is something like this:
Just THINK about how many diversity licenses they're handing out these days!! How many hoodlum thugs and women with no business driving are out there sharing the road with you, just waiting to kill you in an accident? We all know they can't drive! How many of them got the chance to screw up at the factory where they BUILT your CAR??? Or "fixing" the roads! Everyone knows they don't build em like they used to and that the roads are crap... and it's all because of the wokes and their silly DEI!!
No actual logic or policy required. Bald-faced fear mongering is plenty enough to rile them up. Anything to redirect the blame for societal enshittification to identity politics instead of the obvious conclusions of capitalism falling into an unmitigated death spiral.
They’re probably taking the car, which is way worse
After years of research, I have come up with a complete list of every conceivable action a company can take that leads a to a conservative boycott:
- Don't be a bigot
This just in, that's actually been downgraded to:
Treat people with the absolute bare minimum of decency, or appearance of decency.
[S]ince ill-conceived right-wing boycotts rarely tend to hurt the businesses they target in the long term, it’s entirely plausible that the true outcome of this backlash is fewer passengers spewing toxic politics to their seatmates. Friendly skies, indeed.
Well played, Rolling Stone.
I wish they’d just avoid planes with left wings altogether.
and some have sworn off flying altogether
Maybe they can be convinced to support upgrading rail to be a more viable competitor to flying, then? 🥺
But they won't want to build the infrastructure! And if they force black people and Mexicans to build it they'll simultaneously scream "woke agenda taking our jobs" and "look, look how nice we are allowing these underprivileged people work grueling hours for next to no pay!"
And besides, it's not up to us to fund the upgrading! You do it!
Man you nailed every possible Schrodinger's scapegoat there.
Wait, so if I book on a "woke" airline I'll be less likely to sit beside asshole racist idiots? This just keeps getting better!
And hopefully the non-woke airlines are still flying their MAX 9s...
I welcome conservatives taking fewer flights. If anything that will mean less demand for plane tickets and theoretically cheaper fares over time.
Oh no! Then who will tell me that I should "go back to where I came from " and then make fun of my mixed kids?
The best answer to that question is, "Wait, you mean Kansas City?"
I welcome anything that lowers fossil fuel use.
Plus more people masked up on board.
Air travel is one of those weird industries where less demand equals higher prices.
Noticed when it's right-wingers doing it in real life it's a "boycott" but when it happens in their collective imaginations it's "cancel culture"?
As a normal person I fully support "conservatives" staying away from the resources I use.
Btw elections are inclusive and therefore woke.
I wish they'd hurry up and become a death cult
Just need to convince them that life is woke!
Being awake is woke by definition
They already are. They worship the death of their God, ignoring all the stuff he said to do while he was alive. They won't engage in any common sense gun control. They worship the military while they're engaged in killing people, and then they demand those people continue to sacrifice their lives by underfunding and cutting benefits at the VA. They force births, but only to feed the machine with those bodies - once the kids are born, they try to stop them from receiving any benefits like food, medicine, or education - in large part to force them into the military or prisons where they can be controlled and used up.
It's worse because they are a suicidal death cult.
They wish to bring about their version of the end of the world and are doing everything they can to make it happen. All the while, they are dragging the rest of the world down with them.
It’s not “scared of diversity”; diversity is just the dog-whistle. Their ideology demands unconditional support for people who are “on their team” and punishment (economic and otherwise) for people who aren’t. Airlines aren’t willing to cooperate with performative anti-leftism, so they’re the enemy now. Same with Truth Social being the only acceptable social media, or Alex Jones Brand Patriot Coffee / Beer / Whatever. The true believers are tribing themselves up.
We need to bring back TWA. A whole airline just to give them nightmares.
Wake me when they start boycotting air.
Can conservatives start to boycott breathing oxygen? Rumor has it the O2 might be woke...
It's only a matter of time until Fox News and some fringe YouTubers start pushing Patriot Air ™
First, it was 'cultural Marxism' then 'SJWs' and now 'woke.' Could they get any more fucking lame with their dog whistles?
There's a better word to describe people that are "scared of diversity": racist. Or "bigoted", in a broader sense.
The airlines should offer a compromise, like putting all minorities at the back of the plane. /s
The minority being the conservatives, of course. The "silent majority" turned out to be a screaming minority
Yesterday I opened a box of fruit loops. I found myself wondering when conservatives would say they were too woke because of the rainbow colors.
Sweet, more power to them. Fuck off, conservatives.
Wait until they hear about how diverse our highways are.
They really love cancel culture. Ya know, what they claim to hate. Throw their stupid buzzwords back right into their face.
I've seen this on Facebook. Now and then Facebook will show me a page that follows the investigations into these issues, and if I scroll through the comments, I'll often see, "This is because of DEI!"
On a related note, I'm always amused that people are extremely personally invested in either Boeing or Airbus, as though their next personal jet airliner would never be of the other brand. Kind of like how some people are very loyal to their brand of car and fanboy the hell out of that brand. It just feels like more tribalism to me.
It'll be awesome when they have to drive everywhere and stick mostly to their own states.
Airlines aren't woke, they're too greedy. You can't be woke if you're a union buster
I'm an airline pilot and it's funny how many people I work with that tell me they don't want to move on to work with United and Delta because they have gone "woke". United and Delta have always had the best pay and benefits and I've been shocked to see how many people put their own bigotry and racism before working for a company that will give you the best quality of life and pay.
I’ve been shocked to see how many people put their own bigotry and racism before working for a company that will give you the best quality of life and pay.
These are the people who have made it their political identity to vote against their own interests, so it shouldn't be surprising.
That’s great news!