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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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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. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you ask me, I'm upset no one picked up that this consideration was sexist and racist, although it is indeed the best choice for her to win, which reflects how bad US can't get over race and gender.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

But that is basically where everything is wrong with America. America is obsessed with gender and race

is it though? The only reason we're here is because someone had a shower thought, and people proposed that it was probably more significant that it really is quite forwardly.

Also this is just true for most things in the world, in engineering you need to balance between features and simplicity, and simplicity and manufacturing, and manufacturing and materials cost. There is no perfect outcome, improving one thing worsens another.

The fact that gender or race play any factor of consideration for a job that is not pushing out a baby or being an Asian model (for example), race and gender should mean nothing

the way this is worded implies that the implication of race and gender in job positions is normal, but i assume you meant the opposite. In an ideal world, it should mean nothing. But men and women are two different sects of the population, with fundamentally different consumer behaviors, men buy things women dont, women buy things men don't, and while there is absolutely discrimination in the workplace surrounding these things. It's also debatable whether they're even super relevant. Data collection and sciences is a hard field.

As far as jobs go, women can have children, and if you're a company looking for employees, you have to contend with the basic fact that women getting pregnant can drop 9 months or more out of the workforce, meaning you probably have to hire more women to do the same collective amount of work, or you move through more job positions in that given group. It's likely not all that significant, but it's something you have to think about. Granted in the US we have fuck all for maternal leave, so who knows whether this is even relevant to begin with lol.

You only ever hear “I want the best person for the job” when a non white non male is chosen. Basically if it’s a white male, the assumption is he is probably ok for the job

you should probably hear this with every hire, but the implication that a white male being chosen is "somehow worse" than any given minority candidate is a weird statement to make. Though, education wise it could be true.