Thanks to the cancel culture, the Boeing communications chief, a former serviceman, was forced to resign after someone complained about a 33-year old article he wrote criticizing putting women in combat. That was a very mainstream idea in 1987.
Reuters reports that Boeing’s communications chief Niel Golightly abruptly resigned on Thursday. It followed an employee’s complaint over an article the former U.S. military pilot wrote 33 years ago arguing women should not serve in combat.
ONE COMPLAINT!!! This is a man who served his country.
The job is the hot seat as Boeing fends off criticism for its handling of the 737 MAX crisis.
THE OFFENSIVE VIEW WAS MAINSTREAM 33 YEARS AGO
“My article was a 29-year-old Cold War navy pilot’s misguided contribution to a debate that was life at the time,” Golightly said in a statement included in Boeing’s announcement.
“My argument was embarrassingly wrong and offensive. The article is not a reflection of who I am; but nonetheless, I have decided that in the interest of the company I will step down,” Golightly said.
According to an excerpt on the U.S. Naval Institute website, the December 1987 article titled “No Right to Fight” said: “At issue is not whether women can fire M-60s, dogfight MiGs, or drive tanks. Introducing women into combat would destroy the exclusively male intangibles of warfighting and the feminine images of what men fight for – peace, home, family.”
So what?
Golightly’s departure after just six months on the job, during which he was said to be introducing sweeping changes, followed the board’s review of an internal anonymous ethics complaint that flagged his article.
HE HAD TO RESIGN
He decided to step down after discussions with Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun and others, Golightly said in his email.
Golightly acted after Boeing board members, already feeling pressure from the 15-month-old MAX crisis, had expressed little patience for a potentially damaging new distraction, people familiar with the matter said.
He said, what he learned after he wrote the article “indelibly changed my mind, and shaped the principles of fairness, inclusion, respect, and diversity that have guided my professional life since.”
The Post reported that Boeing distanced itself from Golightly’s 33-year-old article and has already started looking for a replacement.
Golightly is a victim of the Democrat Left’s cancel culture. It ends careers for people who currently hold views they deem objectionable, or who have ever held views they now deem objectionable. It ruins reputations.
ONE COMPLAINT ABOUT A 33-YEAR-OLD ARTICLE!!!
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We have arrived…”Two legs bad…” . The ravenously ignorant WILL redeem us…terminally if necessary!!!
So, am “I” the Only one who wholeheartedly agrees with the article. There is a reason it was “once” mainstream. The military has been lowering the standards to the point of absurdity. The videos I’ve seen of modern boot camp look more like a summer camp. How well will women fare in a hot zone like Fallujah or Mogadishu. Even the most extreme training doesn’t compare to those battle zones.
Should THIS EVER be excused? He was 27 yrs old when he wrote this:
In a 1944 letter to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, Robert Byrd wrote,
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
IMO, TOO DISGUSTING to EVER be forgiven in today’s Cancel Culture…..
Byrd was known as the King of Pork – and half of WV is named after him. Time to start ripping down EVERY SINGLE PLACE with his name of it. He was an EXALTED CYCLOPS (whatever TF THAT is…?) in the KKK. Expunge that mans name from our country’s history – AND his Democrat Party.
C’Mon Republicans – get with it – start trending all his stuff….
Hey, when is THE DEMOCRAT PARTY going to be canceled….? THEY are the Party of Slavery – fought against it – tried to stop the freeing of the slaves – had Byrd of WV in the KKK and a top Democrat. When is everything about Byrd AND everything about Democrats going to be erased????