Exact exchange:
Kolvet: We’ve all been in the back of a plane when the turbulence hits or when you’re flying through a storm and you’re like, “I’m so glad I saw the guy with the right stuff and the square jaw get into the cockpit before we took off. And I feel better now, thinking about that.”
Kirk: You wanna go thought crime? I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m gonna be like, “Boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
Kolvet: But you wouldn’t have done that before!
Kirk: That’s not an immediate … that’s not who I am. That’s not what I believe.
Neff: It is the reality the left has created.
Kirk: I want to be as blunt as possible because now I’m connecting two dots. Wait a second, this CEO just said that he’s forcing that a white qualified guy is not gonna get the job. So I see this guy, he might be a nice person and I say, “Boy, I hope he’s not a Harvard-style affirmative-action student that … landed half of his flight-simulator trials.”
He continued that DEI “creates unhealthy thinking patterns. I don’t wanna think that way.”
