Following a series of incidents involving the company’s plane, some conspiracists are baselessly alleging that Boeing is failing on purpose as part of a global plot to bring down Western civilization.
Over the past week, airplanes made by Boeing have been involved in numerous incidents, including midair emergencies, leaking hydraulic fluid, a wheel falling off a plane as it took off, pilots losing control of the plane mid-journey, and a plane plummeting suddenly and injuring 50 people. As a result, right-wing influencers and far–right extremists are once again spreading the conspiracy that Boeing’s problems are all due to the airplane manufacturer’s supposed embrace of diversity.
But this time around, they are going even further: Some are even claiming that the accidents are happening intentionally, and that Boeing is failing on purpose as part of a global conspiracy to bring down western civilization and promote communism and countries like China.
These claims began earlier this year after a part of a Boeing-built Alaska Airlines plane blew off during a flight. Far-right figures claimed that airlines were now more dangerous not because of faults with the production process, but because they forced diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) policies which, conspiracists claimed without any proof, resulted in putting unqualified flight crew in the cockpit. The same far-right figures are now claiming that Boeing’s support of environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and DEI have led to plummeting standards in the manufacturing process.
“Boeing…could be deliberately committing suicide as an organization,” James Lindsay, an anti-LGBTQ extremist who spreads conspiracy theories about communism taking over the world, said on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast released on Thursday. “It’s cutting corners, it’s locked in by this ESG/DEI stuff.”
“Isn’t United run by a drag queen?” Rogan asked on the podcast.
Lindsay went on to explain that a new Chinese plane called the Comac C919, which is virtually identical to the Boeing 737, was posed to be introduced as a replacement for the US-made plane. “So maybe you kill Boeing, and you allow American manufacturing of high-quality aircraft to fall and then the Chinese competitor is now the thing on the market that doesn’t have this bad rap sheet and this risk factor maybe it’s big dirty international business that’s actually happening,” Lindsay said…
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Well, all the recent crap was either intentional or they suddenly become incompetent…so which is it?