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 -  (1 child)

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.

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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.