Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News' FAA and Boeing attack is ableist

While conservatives feel compelled to wink-and-nod and avoid explicitly racist language when attacking racial diversity issues, they are more explicit in their arguments against hiring people with disabilities. They recycle the trope that has justified either not hiring people with disabilities or even paying them below the minimum wage: that disabled labor is somehow less or that they are not capable of doing their jobs. In attacking the FAA initiative, they're calling out DEI in an industry that's unspeakably miserable for people with disabilities...

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