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Thanks to Affirmative Action, the Fire Department of New York City was forced to hire a man who won't fight fires (nypost.com)

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[–]Redomoreagain 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Not surprising. The liberals in charge of NYC have forced the FDNY to hire ppl that CAN'T fight fires for decades. That's why the FDNY throws so many firefighters at small fires, to make up for the deficiencies.

[–]CaptainPaintball 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is the near end result of Liberalism. With cowardice comes corruption. You will eventually see the system fall apart in short time. Idocracy was a documentary from the future, not a work of fiction. Liberalism destroys everything it touches. It is an insidious, evil creation of wicked humans subscribed to by fools and idiots.

[–]KingJak117 -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I thought Idiocy was about the rednecks, ghetto trash, and Mexicans populating faster than the smart people and eventually taking over.

[–]Brett17Reagan Conservative 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (3子コメント)

This is an onion article... Right?

[–]PaganRaccoon 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

/r/nottheonion

[–]SomeWashingtonDudeWashington State Conservative 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Welcome to DeBlasio's New York City.

[–]admin_on_booty -1 ポイント0 ポイント  (0子コメント)

I hope

[–]optionhome 2 ポイント3 ポイント  (1子コメント)

If liberal policies insist on hiring unqualified people, wouldn't be easier for them to designate those people to simple cleaning chores in the firehouse. Maybe even washing the trucks occasionally.

We would then have our first permanent disability case of a fire person being injured while washing a fire truck.

[–]Phillipinsocal 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

They voted in an unqualified president, 'nuff said.

[–]Zer0SuitLucina 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Johnson would not address reports he took several days of medical leave for stress following the April 2 fire and several months’ medical leave after a fire in a six-story apartment building on Rockaway Parkway last July 4th weekend.

WTF. I don't care what job it is, if you're able to take months of leave without being missed, that means they don't need you.

[–]Ovedya2011 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Well I'm a firefighter, but I'm not stupid. I mean, come on, that shit is on fire."

[–]caesarfecit 0 ポイント1 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This reminds me a of an exerpt from one of my favorite novels:

Here’s another. Kill man’s sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can’t be ruled. We don’t want any great men. Don’t deny conception of greatness. Destroy it from within. The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. Set up standards of achievement open to all, to the least, to the most inept – and you stop the impetus to effort in men, great or small. You stop all incentive to improvement, to excellence, to perfection. Laugh at Roark and hold Peter Keating as a great architect. You’ve destroyed architecture. Build Lois Cook and you’ve destroyed literature. Hail Ike and you’ve destroyed the theatre. Glorify Lancelot Clankey and you’ve destroyed the press. Don’t set out to raze all shrines – you’ll frighten men, Enshrine mediocrity - and the shrines are razed.

[–]Sandvichincarnate 1 ポイント2 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Johnson, 41, a former city EMT who earned two medals on that job, was among 282 “priority hires” — applicants passed over in 1999 or 2000 as a result of discrimination, a federal judge ruled.

I think it's understandable to see why he was hired, he was apparently pretty good at being an EMT, and it seems like the drive to save life would make him a strong firefighting candidate. Clearly he wasn't cut out to put himself in harm's way, but to bash affirmative action because one of 282 people hired through affirmative action ended up not being a good firefighter seems unreasonable.