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Comment on When Harris had to pick a VP, all media kinda agreed it should be a white male, to balance the fact that she is black and a woman. So Waltz is the DEI hire.

aprentic@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

He was clearly chosen for the votes he’s likely to bring in. That’s smart strategy on Harris’ part.
As near as I can tell “the media” spent a few days wildly guessing about who her VP pick would be and many of them where white males. There are many articles that predicted that she would pick a white male but I couldn’t find any that argued that it should be a consideration.

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BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
She did interview exclusively white males for the post no?

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- KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  maybe?, but then again im pretty sure like 70% of the US national population is white, so. At the very least it’s above 50% making it a majority. In my state it’s 80% white.
  
  Statistically, you would expect to get a white dude. It’s what’s most representative.
  
  Then there’s the whole institutional race/ethnic bias problem as well. That’s likely relevant here.
  
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- aprentic@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t know. The 6 finalists that we know about were all white males but we can only speculate who she interviewed to get down to those 6 finalists.
  
  While it’s always a reasonable guess that a white male’s identity played a role in their hiring process, we don’t seem to have any evidence to support it.
  
  Calling someone a “DEI hire” doesn’t just mean that they’re a different race than other people in an organization. It’s used to imply that the person is otherwise unqualified for the job and was specifically hired to fill a diversity requirement.
  
  I don’t think that’s an accurate description of Walz and I’d do some pretty serious eye rolling if MAGA starts trying to portray him as such.
  
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