Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife “dream team”

Re:Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife ... by refurb on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:04AM (#25046719)

But we're discussing an article that specifically calls out the researchers ethnicity and the fact they are immigrants.

Or are you saying we should only talk about a person's ethnicity when it's in a positive light?

Maybe this article should have just said "a German husband-and-wife dream team"?

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Re:Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife ... by mschuster91 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:29AM (#25047000)

> Or are you saying we should only talk about a person's ethnicity when it's in a positive light?

Yes, because integration can only work when people have role models to look up to. This is also why (even if she's as "top cop" as it can get) the appointment of Kamala Harris is so important, or Barack Obama winning in 2008 - it is a "ceiling breaker" event, it shows to people that even if one is not part of the "usual old boys club" it is possible to achieve success.

Painting ethnicity in a negative light, especially when it's totally unrelated and irrelevant, however was judged as "potentially inciting or furthering racial division" in German media codex.

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Re:Behind Pfizer's vaccine, an understated husband-and-wife ... by davrosthedalek on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:47AM (#25047974)

If they wouldn't haven given an interview, or otherwise indicated that they want the world to know, it's nobodies business which nationality they are, or that they are husband and wife. It's simple as that.

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