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At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch calls out Elon Musk’s racist misdirection play, in which Musk somehow manages to blame DEI for doors blowing off Boeing planes. Here’s a little bit, but you really need to read the whole thing for context.

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The latest shocking example of this occurred last week after one of the most troubling aviation incidents in the skies over America in the last 15 years: the midair explosion that blew out a door panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet at 14,000 feet, shortly after its takeoff from Portland, Ore. The pilots turned around and safely landed the aircraft despite harrowing minutes for the 171 passengers as misty cold air whipped through the cabin, ripping off one passenger’s shirt and sucking out another’s iPhone.

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Musk gleefully joined in an X/Twitter discussion railing against stepped-up corporate initiatives for racial and gender diversity, equity, and inclusion, commonly known as DEI. The electric car guru responded favorably to a fact-free post — suggesting that pilots hired by United Airlines out of historically Black colleges have lower IQs than Air Force-trained pilots — that sounded like a eugenics rant from the 1920s, then added: “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE.”

It’s not clear whether Musk misspelled DEI on purpose . . . .

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