• RubberDuck
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    20 hours ago

    Add the guardian to that list as they’ve been banging on about this as headline news as well in a totally disproportionate way

    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
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      20 hours ago

      I noticed that too. The amount of coverage wasn’t even remotely consistent with the newsworthiness of the story.

      • Denjin@feddit.uk
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        11 hours ago

        He was a black person promoted to a position of prestige over white people, possibly motivated by an inclusion policy, it’s catnip to the gutter press and it’s a story tailor made to go viral in this day and age with the story amplified by places like twatter and farcebook.

        It’s a textbook example of inherent racial bias in the system where even the slightest mistake by a person of colour, or a woman, or a disabled person is leapt upon but the countless examples of white men doing the same thing are glossed over, ignored and pass by without comment.