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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by vietthan on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:34PM (#33470626)
We would need to look at the ethnicity statistics across C-level executives. Rishi Sunak is the British PM but I can say "UK politics and government is still dominated by Whites" and the British Parliament would agree with me [1]

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...

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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by AbrahamParangi on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:06PM (#33473003)
That document says that Britain is 87% white I mean I don't know what you expect.
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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by vietthan on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:45PM (#33509259)
yes, that's exactly what I meant. I was demonstrating that just because the top guy is a member of the minority group does not mean that organization is "influenced" by minority group.

Edit: I finally read the context again. Yes the top guy is a member of a minority group, and of course he will have some cultural influence. But people will disagree whether the minority group is _at the right level of influence_.

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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by squokko on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:50PM (#33475796)
Conversely, if you say that "UK politics and government is dominated by Whites" without mentioning that the Prime Minister is of Indian origin you are making an equally misleading omission.
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Re:The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with i... by swooni on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:01AM (#33480644)
That isn't something I said so there is no "equally misleading omission".
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