A video has emerged of embattled Unites Airlines CEO Scott Kirby dancing in drag, and critics say it explains everything about the airline.
The video emerged Thursday courtesy of Chaya Raichik’s “Libs of TikTok” account on the social media platform X.
Watch:
This is Scott Kirby, the CEO of @united. He’s a drag queen and has been incorporating drag into @united.
This video should tell you everything you need to know. pic.twitter.com/RR5nWwC5OR
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 18, 2024
Critics say it explains why United Airlines started embracing drag culture in 2019 when it hosted its first-ever “drag brunch.” That was three years after Kirby joined the company.
“For the past couple of years, United, in particular, has been particularly keen on demonstrating through its actions that the airline is a caring and inclusive carrier,” the Chicago Business Journal reported at the time.
“Hosting a drag brunch was conceived as a major attempt to demonstrate that mission in a tangible, fun way,” the paper added.
Notice the leftist terminology — “caring and inclusive.” This doesn’t appear to be a coincidence. Under Kirby, United Airlines has fully embraced a DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) agenda.
Case in point: During an Axios interview in the summer of 2021, Kirby admitted that he takes race and gender into account when making hiring decisions.
“One of the things we do is for every job, when we do an interview, we require women and people of color to be involved in the interview process, bringing people in early in their careers as well and giving them those opportunities, uh, and creating a stronger bench,” he said.
Listen:
CEO of @united says he takes race and gender into account when hiring and laments that there’s too many white males in the airline industry. pic.twitter.com/NSEPzAuqZS
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024
But there’s more.
Raichik has also obtained evidence that United Airlines has hired a “transgender woman” to run an internal DEI (or rather DEIB, with the “B” standing for “belonging”) committee.
Look:
Meet Maya Tallman, a man pretending to be a woman who’s a pilot and runs a newly formed DEI Committee for @united
He sent a letter to employees about how excited he is to incorporate DEI into @united
Pray United is focused on safety just as much as they’re focused on diversity pic.twitter.com/d7mU4rkzlf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 15, 2024
Critics say this bizarre focus on DEI versus safety is a threat and that hiring decisions should be based entirely on merit.
“Diversity really has nothing to do with safe travel,” Kyle Bailey, a former Federal Aviation Administration safety team representative, told Fox Business Network in a recent interview.
“It’s basically all a matter of flight time, your credentials, your background, how much flight experience you have, and also your training,” he added, describing the characteristics that make for a quality pilot.
And it just so happens that the color of someone’s skin and their gender have nothing whatsoever to do with such characteristics.
Responding to all of Raichik’s findings, critics were quick to call for Kirby’s immediate termination and urge others to not fly United anymore until he is indeed ousted.
Look:
How is this allowed? United should be ashamed of themselves. They should fire Scott Kirby. Follow if you agree.
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) January 18, 2024
If this were just 20 or 30 years ago, he would have been fired on the spot and dragged off to a mental asylum. I would still support that course of action.
— Ben Kew ️♂️ (@ben_kew) January 18, 2024
How can I put my safety in the hands of an organization led by someone like this?
United, bring back safety, competence, and trust. Kick DEI (and the executives who’ve been pushing it) to the curb.
— Andy Hutton (@AndrewHutton) January 18, 2024
Bud Light was trivial compared to this. I simply won’t fly @united under any circumstances until they fire this person and end all DEI practices, including any new names they come up with for diversity over merit.
— DemographicDestiny (@DemographicEnd) January 18, 2024
This video makes one thing abundantly clear, don’t fly @united.
Scott Kirby is losing the airline a lot of money by pushing his bizarre personal life onto his employees.
I don’t see how United keeps him as CEO if they want to stay in business.
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) January 18, 2024
United isn’t the only one with a DEI problem. So is Boeing, the company that manufactures planes.
Evidence has emerged that in 2022 the company adjusted its annual bonus plan to award executives for hitting DEI targets versus for increasing profit and prioritizing safety.
Look:
Let’s have a close look at Boeing and DEI!
Boeing’s corporate filings with the SEC reveal that in beginning 2022, the annual bonus plan to reward CEO and executives for increasing profit for shareholders and prioritizing safety was changed to reward them if they hit DEI targets. pic.twitter.com/kBU7wWw9Mk
— James Lindsay, anti-Fascist (@ConceptualJames) January 10, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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