RACEIn the list of things that are racist we have arrived at…. Shark Week

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (10 children)

Not just racist, it’s sexist too.

The funny thing is, the premise for their complaint is destroyed in the fourth paragraph.

Lisa Whitenack loved sharks as a kid. She spent rainy days leafing through a guide to sharks in Reader’s Digest. Every summer, she would watch “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.

But when the scientists appeared on her TV screen, she rarely saw any women she could look up to.

“Why would I know I could do that?” Whitenack said. “I don’t come from a family of scientists. I didn’t see very many people that looked like me on television.”

Whitenack, now a biology professor at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., found her way into shark research anyway.

[–]Haylstorm 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I can't believe that anyone buys that drivel. Like I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people can relate to Steve Irwin's love of animals despite not being Australian men lol. Frankly I think there's something wrong with you if you need someone that looks like you rather than more meaningful traits. Children can manage to see bits of themselves in things like Peppa pig ffs.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It’s a power play, a way to force unqualified people into positions that they don’t deserve. It’s also hugely damaging to the people who worked and struggled hard to achieve those positions on merit - are they quota filling? did they get the job just because they’re brown or female?

[–]Haylstorm 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly. I've seen people be doubted if they got their role for being suited for it or for the quotas and it can seriously fuck up their role. Even if they earnt it but the team thinks they didn't they can lose respect for that person. I have to admit I'd be really insulted if someone thought I only got my job because I was a women, not because I was the most qualified. If enough people thought that though I have to admit I would start to doubt myself.

[–]WhenImBannedJihad against the woke 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The left claimed people of colour, faggots and women so by representation they mean "please allow our target audience who likely support our views, to have a degree of influence in your institution". This is how they took over companies, by sneaking in their activists under the guise of "inclusivity". Why would 90% of all global companies rainbow their logos? They all support the same ideology and only a fool would think that's a coincidence. Really? All those global companies chose to pander to the rainbow or to Ukraine by mere chance?

They're much like freemasons minus the secrecy. If you signal them with the right words like: "lived experience, muh climate, equity" etc or pronouns on your bio/under your email, they will take note and make sure you get the promo instead of that other guy who never uttered anything that hints he supports the woke cult.

[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look no further than the BBC for slightly too obvious diversity hires.

[–]OuroborosTheory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

just like with the "Black people can't be expected to work, show up on time, or talk with anything but the most stereotypical accent, that's white supremacy!" poster, they always beeline for extremely prejudiced stances, and they can't recognize they're falling into a trap because "well I'm not the sort of person who'd support something like that!"

so here they're tacitly saying white kids can identify with anyone who doesn't share their traits, while girls and Black kids are mysteriously missing that part of the brain that lets them understand that someone who doesn't Look Like Them is a person

(and even if they're not implicitly saying that, under their own rules of "you're not allowed to disagree with any bad-faith interpretation" that's the gospel truth now)

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and they can't recognize they're falling into a trap because "well I'm not the sort of person who'd support something like that!"

Well, there's the problem.

These people KNOW they'd fall into the trap- hell, you ask them they'll flat-out say "yes, they are a racist- but it's not their fault, honest. It's not them that hates people of the other race, it's the original sin of being born [majority] that MAKES them hate people of the other race, and it's so insidious literally every other person of their race is a cartoonish Klan member. Why, the fact they ONLY hate this race the very small amount they do makes them still a good person by default; no, they're the most heroic person of their race in all of human existence for only hating the race that little and fighting as hard as humanly possible, only for the inescapable fate foretold by the stars in the sky of being born [majority] forcing them to hate people of this race this little bit!"

These people know damn well they're racist POSes. They just tell everyone else you're WORSE than them.

[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's almost like "generalities" are generally true or something...

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lack of representation and stereotype threat drives people to do better rather than just sit back and let things come to them.

This is why almost every immigrant group does better than the settled population.

[–]Countach_3D 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t come from a family of scientists.

TIL I learned that scientists come from when two white men get together and raise a family of white male children.

[–]alladd 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (2 children)

She's right. When I look at a shark, do I feel represented?

The answer is no. I am a bipedal human male. I am not nature's perfect aquatic killing machine. I do not feel seen.

These sharks are fucking racist.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 7 fun6 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

I can perform Sharksition surgery, for just £100k you can address your Sharkal Dysphoria and live your true life beneath the waves.

Sharksition surgery is definitely not welding you into an oil drum and dropping you in the North Sea once your cheque clears, it’s totally not that.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Fuck yes, although I'm a little short, can you spot me?

[–]WhenImBannedJihad against the woke 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is that what the scientists are busy with? If Shark week has ovEr rEpReSeNtAtIoN? Are these the people we are "trusting the science" with?

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No you see, she was on the Shark Week on the opposing channel so quickly whipped up some “research” to denigrate the competition’s Shark Week. The lack of brown female marine biologists had no effect on her, nor her fellow members of the Black Science Ladies’s Shark Society (or whatever it’s called) but she’s just thinking of children today and how they’re unable to do things unless they seem someone who looks just like them doing it…but most of all it’s to promote her Shark Week which is more dIv3rSe!

[–]UncleWillard56 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Yep, because that's how nature works - through diversity. When will they start forcing people to enter into a profession they don't want to just to meet quotas? And what about the sharks? Are they diverse? I mean, "great white shark" is very problematic within this paradigm. Where is the "great black shark?" The "great gay shark?"

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut

[–]Newzok 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was meaning to find that. Thank you!

[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This shit could be written by AI at this point. How many articles like this are there now? Who the fuck pushes for this drivel.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Alien Hunter loved sharks as a kid. It spent rainy days leafing through a guide to sharks in Human Eater Weekly. Every summer, it would watch “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.

But when the sharks appeared on her TV screen, it rarely saw any alien sharks it could look up to.

“Why would I know I could do that?” Alien Hunter said. “I don’t come from a family of sharks. I didn’t see very many sharks that looked like me on television.”

Alien Hunter, now a Xenomorph Expert Blarrrgh Katharrrrg Rheeeeeeee., found it's way into horror movies anyway.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA

(but yeah this language is so mechanical and life-draining for something so good people will crawl over broken glass for it: nobody sits around on a couch blankly saying "I'm a flexhemidemisexual sapphosophiadjacent femgirl seeking an anti-kyriarchical catboywiggler with broccoli hair" in meatspace)

[–]ID10T 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This seriously reads like satire. I had to check the date of the article to make sure it wasn't April first. Washington Post has really jumped the shark.

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Adult zoomer children of mine, hearing this headline:

Daughter: What?

Son: How?

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Something about a great WHITE shark.

It just feeeeels bigoted.