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Thought this was all great until I got to their company photo. Guess diversity at Lever doesn't apply to age. :-/
by ladelfa 10y ago
Thought this was all great until I got to their company photo. Guess diversity at Lever doesn't apply to age. :-/
- oh_sigh 10y agoYes....it sort of reminds me of the HuffPo tweet about a boardroom full of women...completely neglecting that 95+% of them were white women(upon visual inspection).
- thraway2016 10y agoThe HuffPo staff is not 95% white, by any stretch of imagination or categorization. Only if Ashkenazi are a subset of "white".
- oh_sigh 10y agohttp://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-european-genes.html http://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-europea... > The genetics suggest many of the founding Ashkenazi women were actually converts from local European populations. Okay, even if they were over-represented in Ashkenazim, where were all the Latinos and blacks? 30% should be one of those two groups if you wanted to be proportionate to the US population, but it was definitely way lower than 30%(again, by visual inspection only).
- burkaman 10y agoIn discussions involving racism, "white" means "white skin". Racism is usually about how people look, not genetics.
- dragonwriter 10y agoRacism is about the groups people are placed in by societal perceptions, in which looks are a major but not the sole factor.
- dllthomas 10y agoWhich is not to say that Ashkenazi Jews are not typically considered "white" in mainstream American culture.
- morgante 10y agoSure, and everyone besides hard core white supremacists considers Ashkenazim to be white. I've hung out with plenty of blatant racists who treated me, as a Jew, as part of their in-group.
- dgfgfdagasdfgfa 10y agoIn some contexts, Ashkenazi have been considered white. Not that I'd argue for that.
- WildUtah 10y ago1. "Ashkenazi are…"? 'Ashkenazim' is the plural; 'Ashkenazi' is singular. 2. Everyone except Christian Identity white nationalists considers Ashkenazim white. DNA lineage studies strongly agree. The majority of Ashkenazi DNA is Polish and German followed by Italian.
- wott 10y agoPerhaps they were working while others were making faces for a stupid photo.
- WildUtah 10y agoThe staff photo versus America: 100% under forty. (USA is 50% over 40) 95% white and Asian. <5% Latino and black. (USA and Bay Area are >33%) <5% overweight and obese (USA is 40% overweight and obese) 21% duckface (0% of USA finds duckface appealing)
- jessaustin 10y agoSpeak for yourself on that last one, buster.
- user5994461 10y agoOrganization with noone over 3X years old => They pay too poorly and/or have terrible life balance to get any interest from experienced people.