Tucker Carlson: Pilot ability no longer matters to United Airlines, but skin color does

"Tucker Carlson Tonight" host Tucker Carlson unpacks what United Airline's recent push for "equity" means for the United States.

For three months, we’ve been trying to guess: What is this "equity" that is now our country’s main reason for existing? We know it’s not the same as "equality," or even closely related. In the name of equity, for example, the Biden administration supports open discrimination against Asian college applicants. They’re Asian, therefore they can’t get in to school. It’s that simple. We used to call that kind of behavior "racism" and had laws against it. Now we call it "equity" and we have laws demanding it. It turns out that racism and equity are pretty much the same thing. Who knew? Here’s the latest illustration of the principle, and it comes not from the Biden Administration, but from United Airlines. United used to be a conventional commercial air carrier. It flew airplanes from place to place, most of the time uneventfully. That was the old United Airlines. The new United is very different. It’s a combination of a hyper-aggressive corporate HR department, and a left-wing political action committee. The new United is big on moral pronouncements and mandatory social engineering. United has embraced equity. Here’s its latest directive, spelled out yesterday on Twitter: