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.

• 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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