Somehow they manage to take a legit criticism (that Huff Post doesn't have any black or obviously latin american editors) and make it about the mens!

Right on top!

No blacks, no men, and a couple token Asians in the back. So they're sexist AND racist. [+2303]

Right, but if this was a room full of men this would be "good hiring only hiring the best people for the job and y'know 99% of companies just can't find more than one competent women, you know. Because I lack all self awareness, I'm going to attribute that to how hard I;ve worked, and not that I'm a white man and every random dribble of shit I've ever done was encouraged by society at large."

Fair argument that there are no black people though! Maybe this will get better?

It really is a piece of shit publication.

I'd be embarrassed to work there. [+543]

It's shit because they only hire women. [+42]

Well, that's unsurprising! Once again though, no one on reddit would ever say this about a room full of mostly white men, because if they questioned that, it would mean questioning themselves, and looking at your own privilege in life is scary so the only way to react to it is with hostility.

By the way:

Nothing is stopping women or minorities from inventing or creating companies. White men don't need programs and public shaming campaigns to get involved with companies or inventing things. [+4]

Yeah, it's almost like society is biased in favor of white men or something, right? Like a white guy gets encouraged to become an entrepreneur, has his scientific curiosity encouraged, goes to a good college his parents can pay for despite having bad grades because his dad when there and knows a guy on the board, so he decides he wants to make an app, he can go talk to his frat brother who will loan him money to get off the ground and even if it fails it doesn't matter because he had no investment in it at all. So yeah, nothing stopping historically disenfranchised people at all, except all the things that stop them.

Moving on...

That's a subset of white women we call Basic Bitches^tm [+30]

Boy you best believe basic comes chocolate flavored too. [+48]

# V A L U A B L E C O N V E R S A T I O N

It's kind of funny they post this as if it's a huge boon for women, when honestly it's kind of the opposite. HuffPo is garbage, and it happens to be edited purely by women. In many peoples minds, I'm sure the two are directly related. [+19]

Translation: "I'm attributing my beliefs to other because it makes me feel better about being sexist."

Token Asians wayyyyyy in the back. [+89]

Because hiring women is tokenism, but hiring ASIAN WOMEN?! SUPER TOKENISM. Fuckin load of shit. Hiring men is tokenism. You can't hire someone just because they're a man, god forbid a white man.

Similarly:

Look at their faces, they are beyond proud and happy that they managed to fill the room with white women as if it is a diversity accomplishment.

Icing on the cake is the 2-3 actual minority Asians shoved waaaaaaay in the back. [+181]

You gotta squint to see them [+288]

EVEN WHEN THEY TRY TO SAY SOMETHING IS RACIST THEY'RE RACIST! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

The funny saddest thing is that people are getting mired down further down in the comments section about how since CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are mostly white males, that excuses shit like this.

No. It doesn't. When we wanted to fix black slavery in America, we didn't just make some white, Hispanic, and Asian people slaves to even things out.

In other words, you don't solve problems like this by taking potshots at whoever is on top. The focus should be bringing everyone up, not dragging the top down so that everyone has it equally shitty. What type of dumb fuckery is that logic supposed to achieve? [+483]

There's no excuse for hiring only white men either. This probably wasn't even an intentional hiring practice, they just happen to have a group of people in their company be mostly women. Big fuckin' deal. If it's not a problem for white men, it's not a problem for white and asian women.

And on slavery, you're right, we fixed it by ensuring that free black people would still be wage slaves, we arrested anyone who looked at a white person funny and made THEM into slaves, burnt down wealthy black neighborhoods when they popped up, stole from black people, and ensured that they'd be perpetually poor forever. Also, lol that Asian people were never slaves, someone didn't pay attention in history class.

The other weird thing is that all these chicks are in the 4-6 range as well. [+217]

"But reddit, how does your tiny floppy meat tube feel about this?" asked no one ever.

I like to think that the entire point of civil rights and social justice is that we want it to be that simply having people of any given demographic at the table isn't something to get proud about. That it's just the mundane and normal. Every time someone tries to draw attention to how "diverse" or "forward thinking" they are, it simply seems like a crude act of publicized masturbation that just goes back to reinforce such integration as a novelty, cheapening decades of work done for the sake of equality; instead of actually doing real work to examine and address the real societal and cultural issues that end up causing these divides in the first place. [+60]

Okay, but seriously though, the fact that people react, any time a workforce isn't predominantly white and male, with disbelief and anger, shows why this is important, because people legitimately don't believe that women and POC could POSSIBLY be more competent than white men. Diversity doesn't create cultural divides, it alienates white people who expect to be waited on hand and foot, who expect to have everything handed to them, who expect to be valued for whatever they do.

Imagine the storm that would kick up if it was all middle aged white men posting the same thing. [+7]

They do all the time, and no one seems to care, especially not the people who think that having a room full of women is the single most sexist racist thing ever to happen in western history.

Look at all the Creative Writing and Gender Studies degrees. [+1]

It's a news site? It's not like engineers write news articles. It's almost like they can't see that OF COURSE WRITERS WOULD HAVE WRITING DEGREES!

I get the need for gender-inclusive hiring policy, but damn, when you hire (or seemingly hire) people mostly on the basis of gender. That's just stupid and sexist. [+1]

SO CLOSE and yet so far.

QUICKFIRE ROUND

More like muffington post. [+96]

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No lizard people either.

#reptilelivesmatter [+69]

or attack helicopters [+20]

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Yea.. fuck dem hoez. [+18]

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These people are regressives [+15]

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Well this certainly explains why it seems like all their recent articles were written by whingeing college feminists, they were. [+11]

Meanwhile, in the negatives:

lmao we get it yall, you hate women [-19]

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