This is from Arctotherium 42 on X. Good thing the Obama administration didn't rework the hiring test explicitly to reject qualified white candidates for their race in favor of black candidates who were, quote, bad at science in high school just over a decade ago. Then things would be really bad. Of course, he's being sarcastic because that's exactly what happened. The scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in a class action lawsuit, currently known as Brigitta versus Buttijedge, brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers, only to be dismissed by a pass-fail biographical questionnaire with a 90% fail rate, implemented without warning after many of them had already taken and passed a skill assessment. The questionnaire awarded points for factors like lowest grade in high school is science, something explicitly admitted by the FFA in a motion to deny class certification. From there, the NBC FAE sent letters in October and July of 2009 to the FAA administrator and the Secretary for the Department of Transportation claiming disparate treatment adopted a strategic plan of advocating for an affirmative employment, obtaining an independent valuation of hiring and/or screening tools, and pursuing litigation, a talking points document pushing the FAA to address diversity and the creation of a group called Team 7. In 2012, Team 7 members met with the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, the FAA administrator, and senior FAA leaders to discuss diversity. After which, the FAA commissioned a barrier analysis with a number of recommendations. Central to this, the cognitive test posed a barrier for black candidates, so they recommended using a biological test first to maximize diversity, eliminating the vast majority of candidates prior to any cognitive test. So, in other words, some group of diversity lobbyists went to the FAA, said there's not enough black people who are passing the test. The reason for that is because they score lower on cognitive tests. Therefore, they implemented a biographical test, which all that means is they were testing to see whether you were black or not. And if you weren't black, you got cut. 90% of the people who were qualified, who had gone through the work to be air traffic controllers, were cut from contention because they were white.