Much has been made about the diversity of Biden's cabinet picks. To be perfectly honest most of the people he has named are just names I've never heard before. However when I hear someone say they are keeping diversity in mind or using it as criteria for hiring it turns me against the hiree . Diversity is just saying qualifications don't matter as much as your gender or color. The whole idea of forced diversity should be repugnant to everyone. Now if a cabinet or any grouping of people is organically diverse that's great but that is not what media is celebrating. Just hire the best person for the job predetermining the job must go to a man or a woman or a black or a white is nonsense and should be ridiculed.
Diversity in these choices isn't valuing diversity over qualifications but instead choosing the minority candidate from among a group of equally qualified candidates.
ReplyDeleteA diverse group by definition gets you a variety of perspectives not available from a group of old white men.
Biden has already shown that he will pick someone solely on there color and gender when he predetermined he would use those criteria in his vp pick. I'll stand by what i said deciding ahead of time that you have to have certain color or gender is wrong. I'm not saying don't hire anyone, I'm saying if you make up your mind before hand your limiting your pool of employable people. Equally qualified candidates is an interesting phrase because I'll bet if you were to ask any hiring manager they would tell you there is no such thing. People are unique and 2 people could go through the same college course load and have the same grades and have 2 totally different levels of competence and common sense.
ReplyDeleteNo, he showed he'd consider race and gender in the selection process, which is a whole 'nother thing.
ReplyDeletePeople are unique, yes, but there's always more than one single person equipped for a job.
Happy St. Nicholas Day! :)
I really don't know how you can say that there were so many people that would have been better than Harris. People ripped McCain for Palin and basically gave Harris a pass. You can make anyone look good or bad it's all how you phrase questions and edit answers.
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I'm not saying "that there were so many people that would have been better than Harris". I'm saying that for any one position there is never a single person who is the one best qualified. To consider race and gender among a pool of qualified candidates sounds perfectly reasonable.
DeleteI think McCain's choice of Palin cost him the election.
I've had kind of a moody day, getting a package ready to mail to my daughter and son-in-law who moved cross country and won't be here for Christmas for the first time ever. I feel whiney to be depressed over that, but there ya go :(
The Christmas decorations help, but still...
That is not what Biden did Biden excluded anyone that wasn't a black woman. To most conservatives minds the bar was set pretty low with Harris.
ReplyDeletePalin was kind of interesting initial it created a lot of energy and boosted McCain poll numbers. The media put a lot more effort in nitpicking Palin as VP than vetting Obama who had even less experience.
Christmas spirit is going to run low for people that are limiting contact. Family is such a big part of Christmas
At least all things must pass, I just wish I wasn't getting so much practice at being patient.
Your post was about cabinet picks. The VP is a different matter, though his commitment was to select a woman, not a black woman. They began by narrowing the candidates to about 20 iirc and starting interviews with those to narrow the field further.
DeleteThe conservatives I knew at the time thought Palin was remarkably unqualified and temperamentally unsuited. They're the same people who thought the same of Trump, btw.
I'm listening to my Christmas playlist (it's now over 24 hours long lol) and watching Christmas movies. Bird-watching also helps. My old "Be here now" mantra ought to help more than it does *sigh*
That isn't what the local paper and the television news was saying. From the very beginning Biden was looking to a black woman for vp. The reason I brought up the vp is that most of the cabinet picks are people that most people have never heard of so qualifications are harder to judge.
DeleteMaybe I just need some Christmas cookies, everything is better with cookies.
Yeah, I don't know what others have been saying about what he said, but that's not anything he ever said. He considered plenty of white women, as can be seen from coverage of the process during that time. There are links to sources for the Wikipedia entry on the process:
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At no point did he limit the selection to black women, and I'm not sure where that idea came from.
Christmas cookies sounds like a good idea. I have some fruitcake in the fridge, and I'm one of those who likes fruitcake :)
The site does say he vetted more than just black women, does this mean he had any intention of choosing someone other than a black women, I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem today and I'll admit I'm guilty, I don't believe anything that comes out of Biden's mouth and I'm sure there are plenty of Democrats that would say the same thing about Trump.
Fruitcake gets a bad rap good fruitcake is good, and bad fruitcake is bad. I think the bad fruitcake probably was just regifted one too many times.
Biden's claim was that he would choose a woman. Whether or not he had a black woman particularly in mind is not known but it is known that he never said so. How you can say he "excluded anyone that wasn't a black woman" when it's known he vetted women that weren't black is odd. We can't read his mind.
DeleteBiden may have had a black woman in mind from the get-go, I suppose, even though he never said so, but we can't possibly know that much less say "Biden excluded anyone that wasn't a black woman."
Trump's proven lies are a world of different from us wondering whether or not Biden really seriously considered a white woman even though several were vetted and interviewed. To say you "don't believe anything that comes out of Biden's mouth" in a discussion about something Biden _never said_? If we're going to consider the believability of Biden and Trump, let's at least consider it in light of what they actually say ;)
I used to get re-gifted fruitcakes from a lady who always got about 5. I miss those days lol They were better, more expensive ones than the little shrink-wrapped Claxton ones I pick up at Kroger, but I like the Claxton ones just fine as those are the ones I grew up with. I wish I could make fudge worth eating, but mine always turns out wrong. Cookies, though, those I can do :)
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DeleteWe were talking about something at Bible study one night and fruitcakes came up. One of the guys decided to buy one he went on line and ordered one from a monastery in Europe hand baked by the monks. It was the best fruitcake I've ever tasted a real treat.
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