aprentic

aprentic , 1 hour ago to showerthoughts in 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 Walz is the DEI hire.

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.

aprentic , 4 hours ago to showerthoughts in 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 Walz is the DEI hire.

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.